Athanasios Veloudios
Athanasios Veloudios was a Greek military officer, actor and writer.Biography
Veloudios was born in Athens in 1895. He took part in World War I and the Greco-Turkish war of 1919 – 1922. After his retirement from army, he became an actor. In 1927, Veloudios was invited by Eva Palmer-Sikelianos to present the "Ancient Greek pyrrhic dance" at the Delphic Festival of 1927. She also asked him to be "a choreographer and to maintain the right rhythm" and also teach the steps and the kinesiology of the ancient war dance to young people. The initial success of the first "Amphictyony" of Angelos Sikelianos led to the resumption of the teaching and presentation of the pyrrhic dance in 1930 by him.
