{"id":859,"date":"2011-10-17T20:34:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.helleniccommunity.ie\/?p=859"},"modified":"2011-10-17T20:34:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T19:34:38","slug":"the-new-prometheus-why-byron-went-to-fight-in-the-greek-revolution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellenic.ie\/gr\/the-new-prometheus-why-byron-went-to-fight-in-the-greek-revolution-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Prometheus: why Byron went to fight in the Greek Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish-Hellenic Society<br \/>\nInaugural Lecture <strong>21 October 2011<\/strong> at 7pm in Global Irish Institute Clinton Auditorium, UCD, Belfield Dublin 4<br \/>\n<strong>By Professor Roderick Beaton \u00ad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The new Prometheus: why Byron went to fight in the Greek Revolution<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The story of Byron\u2019s death at Mesolonghi on 19 April 1824 is well known.<\/p>\n<p>It ended one ofthe most extraordinary poetic careers in English literature, and added one ofthe best-known names in Europe at the time to the roll-call of foreign Philhellenes who gave their lives for the independence of Greece.<br \/>\nBut beyond the legend ofheroic self-sacrifice in a noble cause, there is another story to be told.<\/p>\n<p>What was it, about Byron\u2019s personality, his career as a poet, his political ideas, that brought him to the point of committing his life and his wealth to the cause of\u00a0 Greece?<\/p>\n<p>Was it mere gesture, as some have supposed?<\/p>\n<p>What did Greece really mean for Byron, at the beginning ofthe 1820s?<\/p>\n<p>What did he have to contribute to the struggle?<\/p>\n<p>These are the questions that this lecture addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish-Hellenic Society Inaugural Lecture 21 October 2011 at 7pm in Global Irish Institute Clinton Auditorium, UCD, Belfield Dublin 4 By Professor Roderick Beaton \u00ad The new Prometheus: why Byron went to fight in the Greek Revolution The story of Byron\u2019s death at Mesolonghi on 19 April 1824 is well known&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","wpcat-3-id"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"gr","enabled_languages":["en","gr"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"gr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellenic.ie\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellenic.ie\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellenic.ie\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellenic.ie\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellenic.ie\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellenic.ie\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellenic.ie\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellenic.ie\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellenic.ie\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellenic.ie\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}