Antiquity Preserved or Cultural Loot?
Theft or purchase? It is all a matter of perspective. Which is the best home for the Elgin Marbles?
Lord Byron
Solomos after Missolonghi
Solomos needs explaining to the English-speaking reader. Not only because it is the anniversary of George Gordon, Lord Byron’s death at Missolonghi and Solomos is conventionally placed in a bracket with the great Scotsman; but because Solomos, universally admired in Greece, is almost as generally unknown abroad.
