Stylianos Alexiou (Greek: Στυλιανός Αλεξίου, 13 February 1921 – 12 November 2013) was an archaeologist, philologist and university professor.
[4]: 168 In 1992 he was honored by the University of Padua for his contributions to Minoan archaeology and to Byzantine and Modern Greek philology.
His works on the subject number six books and thirty essays or contributed articles, with the most important being his linguistically restored edition of the Erotokritikos published in 1980.
[3] According to Nicholas Panayotakis "...constituted one of the leading achievements of Modern Greek philology, a real landmark and tour-de-force..."[3] Likewise, he produced the critical Voskopoula, the Apokopos which does not accept the didactic, moral and eschatalogical character human affairs that so many researchers since have presented[6] and the Erofili.
He published many revisions, new interpretations, and observations on editions of texts, old and new, of literary criticism and Cretan theatre.