In 1829, immediately after the liberation of Nafpaktos from the Turks, his great-grandfather Panagiotis, with his two brothers Alexis and Christodoulos, settled in the city because it was fortified and relatively safe.

In 1961, however, he was one of many conservatives who joined the Center Union (EK) in opposition to the corruption of right-wing governments at the time.

On 15 July 1965, he was appointed Prime Minister of Greece by king Constantine II after the latter dismissed Georgios Papandreou, a move that is known as Apostasia of 1965.

In July 1974, he was one of the politicians who brokered the end of the Regime of the Colonels and the appointment of Constantine Karamanlis as prime minister.

Similar opinion has Linos Politis in a critical assessment in his book "History of Modern Greek Literature".

Both (especially G. Athanas in his first most successful collections) give a certain freshness to the isolated provincial life of the country, which they render in a graphically idyllic way.

Of course, bucolics as a climate of the soul are present in his poetry, but they are so lightly diffused throughout his work and so subtly emphasized that they cease to have a significant meaning.