Background
He was born in the village Ferentinata, near Antypata Pylarou, in Kefalonia, the eldest son of Spiros Antypas and Angelin Klada.
He was born in the village Ferentinata, near Antypata Pylarou, in Kefalonia, the eldest son of Spiros Antypas and Angelin Klada.
He had two siblings, Mpampis and Adelais. He participated as a voluntary soldier in the Cretan Insurrection of 1896, during which he was injured. On account of his later criticism of the role of the Greek monarchy in the insurrection, he was imprisoned and exiled to the island of Aegina.
An order from the Ministry of Justice declared: "Antypas should be placed in isolation and no one should talk to him.
If he doesn"t comply with this he should be confined to his cell and be served food without salt". In 1900 he returned to Kefalonia, where he published the journal Anastasi, which was closed down by the authorities because of its content.
At that time he fathered two girls, naming one Anarchia (Anarchy) and the other Epanastasi (Revolution). He also established the "People"s Reading Place" (Greek: Λαικό Αναγνωστήριο) "Equality" which became the centre of political and spiritual debate on the island.
Antypas returned again to Kefalonia and republished his Anastasi newspaper, for which he was arrested but found innocent in the following trial.
There he began to agitate over the rights of farmers. His teachings were received positively by the farmers but the owners of the agrarian estates disliked him. They paid 30,000 drachmas to a supervisor named Kyriakou to kill Antypas, which he did on March 8, 1907.
His killer was never brought to justice for the crime.
In Pylaro there is a statue to Marinos Antypas, in the "Myloi" area where he once held a speech.
During his studies in Athens, he became a member of the Central Socialist Society. His Socialist Radical party participated in the 1906 general election, but won few votes.
Quotations: "Antypas should be placed in isolation and no one should talk to him. If he doesn"t comply with this he should be confined to his cell and be served food without salt".