Menelaos Frangoudis

Born in Limassol, his mother was from Zakinthos. Teacher at Hellenic School Limassol.

Journalist. Editor of the weekly newspaper in Limassol Anagennisis and thereafter the weekly Alitheia (1897-1931), which he grew to be the most influential political and philological newspaer of Cyprus. He was a political commentator in on Cyprus in London's Imerisias Oikonographimenis (1912).

Writer, poet. He used the pseudonym Onisilos, and was a fanatic on the use of the demotic language. Not only did he study the use of language, but he also lectured on the topic. His poems have been published in the Athenian Imerologia tou Skokou. He translated Sheakespear's sonnets into Greek as well as the French plays of Alexandre Dumas and Amauray. The latter were published as a series in the newspaper Salspix. As a young man he wrote the play "Netzimpe" which was performed in the Cypriot theatres and was published in the magazine Noumas to which he contributed.

Biographical Dictionary of Cypriots 1800-1920