"This photograph, which appeared on the front page of the newspaper Ριζοσπάστης on May 10, 1936, shows a mother mourning over the dead body of her son, Tassos Toussis, a factory worker who had just been killed by police at a demonstration by striking workers in the city of Thessaloniki. This image led Yiannis Ritsos to compose the poem that is now known as the ""Epitaphios (᾿Επιτάφιος),"" imagined as a lament sung by the mourning mother in the photograph. (Published with permission.)"
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