Antonios Faceas was a teacher, scholar, poet, critic and translator. He was born in 1821 in Fatsadika. He studied theology, physics and mathematics at the Ionian Academy in Corfu. There he seems to have met the great poet Dionysios Solomos. Antonios Faceas was a polymath. He was a man of ideology, a radical, a fighter, a patriot and an opponent of the British occupation of the Ionian Islands.
He wrote several textbooks, taught mathematics and physics in schools in Lamia, Tripoli and Nafplio. His acquaintance with Dionysios Solomos, the Ionian culture, but also the forced use of katharevousa in schools, made Faceas fight for the introduction of the Demotic language. He wrote several poetic works, comedies and works concerning public and private education. His translation work is also quite extensive. The most important thing about Facesea is that he believed in the universal independence of the Greeks without any subordination and protection from the great powers of the time. He died in 1872 in Nafplio.
