Google with Doodle on April 8 decided to honor the great Greek poet, Dionysios Solomos. The biggestsearch engine of the world did not forget the 216th anniversary since Solomos’s birthday and yesterday’s doodle depicts a woman figure upon the sea that the Greek poet mentions in his work The Cretan. The work describes the story of a Cretan who left his home after the revolution was lost in 1826, the shipwreck and his efforts to save his beloved from the tempest. A central point in the work is the apparition of an oracle, the Feggarontymeni, meaning "the one dressed by the moon."

Dionysios Solomos was born 216 years ago, on April 8, 1798 in Zakynthos; he is considered as Greece’s national poet not only because he wrote the Greek National Anthem, but also because he contributed to the preservation of the earlier poetic tradition and highlighted its usefulness to the modern literature. In addition, he was the first to use demotic Greek (language). He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty, of which the first two stanzas became the Greek National Anthem in 1865.