O Armatolos

The poem was composed in 1860, and officially published on 25 March of that year to participate in the Athens University competition for best Greek language poetry, winning first place.

"O Armatolos" tells the story of the death of a legendary hero who protected the villagers from Gheg Albanian (Ghegis) gangs.

Kuzman's mother removes the curse she had said towards the village enemies and forgives them, requiring the Gheg Albanians not to attack the Reka people anymore.

The scene of the eighth part takes place at the home of Kuzman's fiancee and details her grief that eventually causes her to become a nun.

In 1850, before returning to his hometown Ohrid, he visited the poetry competition in the Athens University, being deeply impressed by the ceremony in which the winner is awarded by king Otto of Greece.

[9] The poem's story revolves around the myth of a popular or national hero, who protects his people from the atrocities of foreign enemies.

[12] The questions are rejected in the third stanza, giving the real cause in the fourth: Since the beginning of the first verse, Parlichev's lyrical and suggestive style by the unforced hyperbole, antithesis and Homeric comparisons, introduces the reader to the event, heralding the doom that the people of Reka have after the falling death of the armatoloi.

[15] The eighth song begins with the verses: and ends with the self-referential stanza: Artistically, the author leaves the readers with a slight picture of the region around Galichnik, where the events of the poem take place.

With a willow planted landscape, the birds coming in spring, the beautiful sounds that succeed the cold, the bad, when everyone could calm down and rest.

[16] "O Armatolos" was published on 25 March 1860 for Parlichev's sole purpose of entering it in the Greek royal poetry competition of the Athens University.

[18] The poem was announced as the winner of the competition by the prominent Greek poet Alexandros Rhizos Rhangaves, who was president of the committee.

Excessive joy is more devastating than deep sorrow...According to the Athenian literary journal Pandora, Parlichev revealed himself as the author of the poem, introducing himself as Grigorios Stavridis.

Rhangaves praised Parlichev as the "living evidence of the presence of Greek culture in an area as remote as Northern Macedonia.