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Lord Byron: The Poet and the Revolutionary in Greece

 

Watch Here: YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Twitter Broadcast
Date: THURSDAY 7 Oct 2021 @ 7:00pm AEDT (Melbourne) | 11:00pm EEST (Athens) | 4:00am EDT (New York)
Presenter: Professor Vrasidas Karalis

Language of Presentation: English | No knowledge of Greek required
Entry: FREE

 
 

Synopsis

 

It would be a serious omission if we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution without presenting the most notorious celebrity of the time, Lord Byron, who fell in love with its cause and died for its sake. The lecture will offer a brief appreciation of Byron’s life and poetry and explore some of his works that deal with the Greek question in all its dimensions. Lord Byron was one the few English poets and artists who avoided the exoticization and idealization of the Greeks as people and expressed the incessant struggle for political liberation. His personality, colourful and contradictory, overshadows his effort through poetry to translate a historical event into symbolic landscape. The presentation will focus briefly on these aspects of his otherwise rather neglected poetic achievement by our contemporaries.

 
 

How To Participate

 

The event will be simulcasted on YouTube Live, Facebook Live and Twitter Broadcast.

You don't need an account to watch the live broadcast on any of the above carrier services.

However, if you want to participate in the Q&A at the end of the seminar you'll need an account with the equivalent service in order to post your question in the comments.

 
 
 
 
 
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