Sokrates Kapsaskis was a Greek poet, film director, historian and translator. He was born on the island of Zante. In 1938 he left Zante to live at his grandfather's house on the Peloponnesus, where he met the poets Takis Sinopoulos, Giorgos Pavlopoulos and 'Gavriel Pentzikis'. Together they published poems, essays and various translations.