Vassilis Rotas

[2] Following this, he established the Popular Theatre of Athens in 1932 and translated some theater plays of William Shakespeare into Greek during the 1930s.

[3] After Nazi Germany occupied Greece in World War II, he joined the National Liberation Front (EAM)[2] and established the Theater of the Mountains.

[7] Rotas was an important figure in the development of the Greek language, preferring the Demotic over the Katharevousa.

[8] He married his childhood friend Katerina Giannakopoulou and had three children, one of them the prominent Greek composer and theatrical contributor Nikiforos Rotas.

[10][11] Later, Vassilis was the partner of Velou Damianakou, who also was a member of the Greek resistance against Nazi Germany.