Shakespeare's funerary monument Socrates in genius, a Maro in art," comparing Shakespeare to Nestor the wise King of Pylus, to the Greek philosopher Socrates, and to the Roman poet Virgil (whose last name, or "cognomen" was Maro). The second reads "The earth buries him, the people mourn him, Olympus possesses him," referring to Mount Olympus, the home of the Greek gods. The English poem reads: As modernized by Katherine Duncan-Jones: Stanley Wells is one of the few biographers to comment on the poem, saying that it "somewhat cryptically calls on the passer-by to pay tribute to his greatness as a writer", and admitting
Maro Douka Maro Douka Maro Douka (; born 1947) is a Greek novelist. She has lived in Athens since 1966 and she studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens. She belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s; her debut work, "Η Πηγάδα", based on her imprisonment in 1967 by the Military Junta, was published in 1974, just a few months after the Metapolitefsi. She was awarded the Nikos Kazantzakis Prize of the Municipality of Heraklion for "Η αρχαία σκουριά" and the Greek State