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Location	Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Introduction	Anestis Delias, a.k.a. Artemis, was born in Smyrna in 1912 and with Markos Vamvakaris, Giorgos Batis and Stratos Payoumtzis made up The Legendary Quartet of Piraeus, which defined the Piraeus school of rembetika that lasted until 1937, when the Metaxas regime cracked down on the music and those who played it. Delias was badly affected by this. In 1938, he got mixed up with Katerina (or Koula) Skoularikou, a prostitute and heroin addict, who was believed to be so fearful of losing Delias that she would get him addicted to heroin. Indeed, Delias, despite all the songs rembetes wrote about drugs, was the only rembete to become involved with heroin and to succumb to it; for, having done everything he could to escape heroin and the clutches of Skoularikou, including joining the army and fighting on the Albanian front in 1940-41, Skoularikou tracked him down in Athens and drew him back into her orbit, soon after which, in the winter of 1944, Delias was found dead in the street outside the teke Seraphim in Metaxourgio of a heroin overdose, clutching his bouzouki.
Interests	Greece, ancient Greek and Latin, Archaeology, Greek music, Rebetika
Favorite movies	Rembetiko 1984 (Kostas Ferris)
Favorite music	Rebetika
Favorite books	The Road to Rebetika and all books about Rebetika, books about ancient culture, Latin and ancient & modern Greek, novels