Statue of Lord Byron in the Garden of Heroes at Missolonghi
Item
File name
sackett_078 See all items with this value
Title
Statue of Lord Byron in the Garden of Heroes at Missolonghi See all items with this value
Description
This is a memorial to Lord Byron set within a memorial garden dedicated to the heroes of Greek independence. The sculpture is highly naturalistic and set on top of a large monument with an inscription in Greek. Visitors are seen to the left. See all items with this value
Place name
Missolonghi See all items with this value
Subject
monument, people
Notes
Lord Byron was an English poet who famously fought alongside the Greeks in their war of independence against the Ottoman Empire. He died in Missolonghi in 1824 in between violent sieges of the city. He is remembered within a memorial site and cemetery called the Garden of Heroes which also memorializes some organizers of the Greek forces as well as the thousands of civilians that were massacred by the Turks as they attempted to flee the city in 1826.
Date photographed
3/25/1977
