Essentially it is a revolutionary poem set to music from the time of the Turkish occupation
Every year on Holy Saturday in Corfu, after the first Resurrection and the breaking of the Botides, the island’s philharmonics play the 19th century revolutionary anthem “Don’t be afraid Greeks” in the streets of the city.
It is essentially a revolutionary poem set to music from the time of the Ottoman Empire, which was particularly popular in various collections of patriotic songs published outside Greece (Denmark, England) between 1870 and 1890. The composer of this particular version remains unknown, but tradition wants it to be the Kefalonian Nikolaos Tzanis Metaxas.
The band of the Philharmonic Society of Corfu performed this performance during the first official Corfu celebration of the anniversary of March 25 in Corfu in 1850
During the second half of the 19th century, the march had a pan-Hellenic appeal under the title “Song of encouragement”, which accompanied many of the important moments of the adventurous course of Greece at that time. However, it should be noted that his verses were particularly popular during the period of the Greek Revolution.
It is characteristic that as early as 1840 it was recorded in Greek poetry anthologies as one of the most widespread patriotic verse works of the Greek Palegenesis period.
Source: Skai
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