May Sinclair’s Romantic Corpus by Leslie de Bont

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Byron and Nineteenth-Century Literary Philhellenism in America by Maria Schoina

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The Spartan King Leonidas I: History and modern times by E.A. Tchiglintsev, N.A. Shadrina

“…The European Romantic poets of the first half of the 19th century were inspired by the image of Leonidas I because of their sympathy to the struggle for freedom of the Greeks (Michel Pichat, Lord Byron, and Alexander Pushkin in Russia). Victor Hugo raises the conflict of the Greeks and the Persians to the mythological level describing it as a civilizations confrontation. …”
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