Lord Byron

The mystery shrouding the fate of the body of Alegra Byron, daughter of Lord Byron and Claire Clermont, who died in an Italian convent at the age of five, is back in the news after the revelation of the monastery’s archive, as presented at the 48th International Byronic Conference in Me

The American School of Classical Studies (54 Souidias) presents "Lord Byron and Greece, 200 Years On," commemorating the bicentennial of Byron's death at Messolonghi.

Marking the 200th anniversary of the great poet and philhellene Lord Byron's death, the Athenian Historical Dance Group presents a performance set in the 19th century at the Parnassos Literary Society (8 Agiou Georgiou Karitsi). Dancers in period costumes will perform to the music of Lord Byron's contemporaries like Rossini, Paganini and Schubert.

"Britain and Greece have a co-ownership of Byron; in Britain as a foremost poet and in Greece as someone associated with Greek liberation," says Lord Lytton, a fourth-generation descendant of Lord Byron, in a special edition of Kathimerini.

Defense Minister Nikos Dendias attended an event held at Trinity College Cambridge on Friday marking the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron's death. In his greeting, Dendias referred to George Gordon Byron's special relationship with Greece and his contribution to the struggle for Greek independence.

Defence Minister Nikos Dendias has attended the opening of a two-day festival at Trinity College Cambridge in England to mark with the bicentenary of Lord Byron's death on 19 April 1824, in Messolongi, Greece.

As we celebrated Greek Independence Day on March 25th, we took a deeper look at one of the crucial figures of the Greek Revolution of 1821, Lord Byron. 

Aside from his status as a world-renowned poet at the time, he was also perhaps the most famous philhellene to travel to Greece and ultimately give his life for Greek independence in 1824, 200 years ago. 

Primary sources hold that had he not died prematurely in Messolongi almost 200 years ago, Lord Byron would have been offered the throne of Greece and ruled the newly established kingdom as its first monarch. It is quite possible that Lord Byron was the King George I that Greece never had.

Bigger, greener and merrier, the Athens Irish Festival returns for a second year with three days of live music, dancing, storytelling, poetry, documentary screenings, workshops, creative activities, craft stalls, role playing and themed food and drink at Lambidona social center and park in Vyronas.

The chairperson of the British Museum has said is it "worth trying" to work with Greece to see if the Parthenon Sculptures "can be seen both in London and Athens, while treasures currently in Greece could be seen by new audiences here."