Poetry Day, Agios Antonios Elementary School: 2nd Grade Students recitating “Thourios” on our National Day (25th of March) wearing traditional costumes. “Thourios” is one of the most famous poems of Rigas Feraios. A Greek writer, political thinker and revolutionary, active in the Modern Greek Enlightenment, remembered as a Greek national hero, a victim of the Balkan uprising against the Ottoman Empire and a pioneer of the Greek War of Independence