What Byron really did for Greece and why it still matters

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• Roderick Beaton, Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History
• Thursday 24 October 2013, 18:00-19:00
• Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 1.

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Lord Byron’s death on 19 April, 1824, ‘in Greece, and for Greece’, created a legend that is still with us. Professor Roderick Beaton traces the real story behind Byron’s mission to help the Greeks in their revolution against Ottoman Turkish rule and shows its effects are still with us.

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