Santo Maura, or Lefkada

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Santo Maura, or Lefkada

Subject

The correspondence Byron wrote and some of which he received during the tour.

Description

Named as will visit and will jump form the promontory 1810-06-17. A Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of
Greece, also known by the name Santo Maura. The myth about Sappho's suicide at Cape Lefkada is related to other myths linking the island to the ancient Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, and to Odysseus, the hero of Homer's Odyssey. Wiki

Creator

Paul M Curtis

Source

Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94.
Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/

Publisher

The Byron Online Project: http://byrononlineproject.com/

Date

13 April 2014

Contributor

Paul M Curtis

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License.

Relation

David Radcliffe's "Lord Byron and his Times:"
http://www.lordbyron.org/

Language

English

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Place

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English Romanticism, George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, 1788-1824, 1809-1811

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Paul M Curtis, “Santo Maura, or Lefkada,” ByronOnlineProject, accessed March 29, 2024, https://byrononlineproject.com/items/show/452.

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