Marinos Antypas (1872-1907), a leader of the labor and rural movement, was born in the village of Ferendinata in the area of ​​Pylaros, Kefalonia. Already during his studies in Law of Athens he developed intense political action as a socialist. He fought in the Cretan Revolution of 1896 and when he was injured and returned to Athens, he was imprisoned twice for anti-war action. Between 1898-1906 he lived in Kefalonia, publishing the newspaper “Anastasis” and founding a folk school, thus continuing to fight for the rights of the workers.

In 1906, Antipas was nominated as a member of the parliament with the newly established Socialist Party, but despite receiving 480 votes, he was unable to vote, as the bourgeoisie exercised unlawful pressure on the island. In the same year, after the permission of his family, he went to Thessaly to become a caretaker in the estates of the uncle of G. Skiadaresis, applying very progressive measures such as Sunday’s holiday, drastic increase in the pay of the offspring and debt cancellation. At the same time, experiencing the impoverishment of the peasants, they urged them to organize themselves in order to claim their rights from the landlords. Neither the threats of the landlords, nor the pretensions of his god to stop him, did not yield, and Antipas continued to fight consistently on the side of the poor peasants. Eventually the landlords organized his murder at Pirgetos, Larissa, on March 8, 1907, while the offender remained unpunished. It is said that the last words of M. Antypa were “Equality, Brotherhood, Freedom”, ie the basic principles of the French Revolution. The murder of M. Adypa caused an angry popular reaction throughout Greece and was a landmark for the rise of the agricultural movement. M. Antypas, with his uncompromising struggles, was the one who laid the foundations for basic subsequent conquests such as wage and working hours, insurance and pension funds, and labor compensations.

His statue in Potamianata, 2.68 meters and 1.10 meters wide, is the work of the Kefalonian sculptor Memas Kalogiratos.