Editing Odysseas Elytis (section)

===The war===
In 1937, he served his military requirements. As an army cadet, he joined the National Military School in [[Corfu]]. He assisted [[Frederica of Hanover]] off the train and onto Greek soil personally when she arrived from Germany to marry hereditary [[Paul of Greece|Prince Paul]]. During the war, he was appointed Second Lieutenant, placed initially at the 1st Army Corps Headquarters, then transferred to the 24th Regiment, on the first line of the battlefields. In 1941, he contracted an acute case of typhus abdominalis and was transferred to the Ioanina Hospital to the pathology unit for officers. Elytis came very close to his death here and was given the options between staying at the hospital and being a prisoner when the Germans fully invaded and occupied Greece, or being transferred with the risk of intestinal perforation and hemorrhage. On the eve of the invasion of the German armies, he decided to be transferred to Agrinio and from there eventually back to Athens, where he made a slow but steady recovery during the German occupation. He began to outline poetry for his eventual work "Sun The First"; in Alexandria, Seferis delivered a lecture on Elytis and Antoniou. Elytis was sporadically publishing poetry and essays after his initial foray into the literary world.<ref name=nobel/>

He was a member of the Association of Greek Art Critics, AICA-Hellas, [[International Association of Art Critics]].<ref name="AICAHellas">{{cite web|url= http://www.aica-hellas.org/histen.html|title= AICA-HELLAS History|author= Association of Greek Art Critics, [[International Association of Art Critics]]|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080511234318/http://www.aica-hellas.org/histen.html|archive-date= 2008-05-11}}</ref>