ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that Byrons Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, consisting of text and notes together, offers a culturally sensitive discussion of Greeces potential liberation that is complicated and nuanced by the interplay between its prose and verse components. It focuses on how Byron uses Modern Greek education and Romaic literature to assess Greek national character. The chapter also discusses Byron associates the expansion and diffusion of education in Greece with national liberation. It examines how Byron outlines both the domestic advancements in, and foreign influences upon, Romaic literature and suggest that, implicit in his assessments, is the authors questioning of Greece's association with Europe and relationship with Britain. In Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Byron aims to define Modern Greece's relationship with Europe. Leake suggests that with the help of Christian Europe, Modern Greece may be changed into a nation, raising itself from barbarism into civilization.
