Byron, Lord b. January 22, 1788 d. April 19, 1824 Poet. Born in 1788, Byron is the most famous and controversial of his contemporaries. He was always a study in contrasts, a melancholy satirist, an aristocratic champion of the common man, handsome and adored but obsessed with a small personal deformity. He fled England to escape scandal and a failed marriage and died of fever in 1824. His natural gift for poetry was the only consistency in his troubled life. Yet even during his own lifetime, his personal life overshadowed his work. (Bio by: Dario Pejic) Ayios Georgios, Mycenae, Regional unit of Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece
Ritsos, Yannis b. May 1, 1909 d. November 11, 1990 Poet. One of modern Greece's most widely translated poets, he was inspired by Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky. Since 1931, he was close to the K.K.E. (the Communist Party of Greece). During Greek civil war he was sentenced to spend four years in detention in various camps. Between 1967 and 1971, the military dictatorship put him in detention again. (Bio by: Hikmet) Monemvasia Cemetery, Mycenae, Regional unit of Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece
b. January 22, 1788 d. April 19, 1824