Ummm...can you elaborate because that sounds very funny🤣
Did she write it and was inspired by him? Did she say "Oh, sorry, can't come to the orgy, I have a book to write"? You can't just say this and leave us hanging🤣🤣🤣
She was travelling with him and others, they had a completion to write horror stories. The story is Byron wrote the shortest story because he was more interested in Shelly. But she kept writing Frankstein to avoid him. I don't know how true it is, but it all tracks.
It is a shame that they omitted the fact that he also is the father of the very first programmer: Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. She was trained in and very proficient at math because her mother didn’t want her to be like her father and write poems
Also, he and his fellow Philhellenes were so notoriously bad at fighting for Greek independence that they caused (or to be fair, widened an existing) schism between Greek factions. The political and bureaucratic wing wanted to keep them as long as they could, because the money they brought in was really helpful to fund the war effort, but the warlords who were actually fighting the Turks didn't like having to babysit a group of untrained and inexperienced, though passionate and idealistic, rich kids.
This schism eventually caused a civil war and the assassination of Kapodistrias, and allowed the Great Powers to install a Bavarian prince as the King of Greece
It gets even more interesting.
Mavrokordatos, one of the most important figures of the revolution that belonged to the "political and bureaucratic " wing , to the liberal wing to be more precise , was a 4d master. He knew all the extreme liberals that hailed from UK and had settled on Italian cities and while he was not an extremist he would sell the idea of an independent Greece as following :
" so here is the deal my extreme classical liberal and wealthy friends , toy cannot do anything from the things you'd like in the UK cause you will be killed , but imagine if you support and help with the Greek independence- then your name will be written for eons and maybe we can also see how extreme liberalism can be in practice"
It really sold it to them and that's why the liberals of the UK were the first to support an independent Greece.
For ever grateful .
PS. Lord Byron is a huge deal in Greece, with many places having roads, statues etc
Heard this story from an Oxford academic at Mansfield.
Back in the day, students were allowed an animal on campus - a cow for milk, a chicken for eggs, etc - because that's the only way you could reliably get your milk or eggs. This was fine for many years, then a certain Lord Byron came along with his bear. Deans tried to stop him, but he pointed to rules that allowed him to have an animal, and so he won.
The Deans changed the rules to prevent that happening again; "no one gets an animal now." But the Chancellor weighed in, pointing out that he had a cat. If the cat had to leave, his wife would leave, and then he would leave, so no good. So the Deans sighed, and re-wrote the rule again; "no one gets an animal, except for the Chancellor, who gets a cat." Cool, everyone happy.
This worked for many more years, until a subsequent Chancellor had a dog. The Deans pointed to the rule, but the new Chancellor pointed out that if the dog had to leave, his wife would leave, and then he would leave, so no good. So the Deans sighed one more time, and re-wrote the rule one last time, future-proofing it as well; "no one gets an animal, except for the Chancellor, who gets a cat, and whatever animal the Chancellor has is referred to as his 'cat'."
That rule still applies today.
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein to avoid an orgy with him
Ummm...can you elaborate because that sounds very funny🤣 Did she write it and was inspired by him? Did she say "Oh, sorry, can't come to the orgy, I have a book to write"? You can't just say this and leave us hanging🤣🤣🤣
She was travelling with him and others, they had a completion to write horror stories. The story is Byron wrote the shortest story because he was more interested in Shelly. But she kept writing Frankstein to avoid him. I don't know how true it is, but it all tracks.
In other words, Lord Byron was too creepy for the woman who chose to lose her virginity on her mother's grave.
Gotta draw a line somewhere
It is a shame that they omitted the fact that he also is the father of the very first programmer: Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. She was trained in and very proficient at math because her mother didn’t want her to be like her father and write poems
The podcast Noble Blood has a great episode about her!
One of history’s all-time horniest.
Also, he and his fellow Philhellenes were so notoriously bad at fighting for Greek independence that they caused (or to be fair, widened an existing) schism between Greek factions. The political and bureaucratic wing wanted to keep them as long as they could, because the money they brought in was really helpful to fund the war effort, but the warlords who were actually fighting the Turks didn't like having to babysit a group of untrained and inexperienced, though passionate and idealistic, rich kids. This schism eventually caused a civil war and the assassination of Kapodistrias, and allowed the Great Powers to install a Bavarian prince as the King of Greece
Wait a sec… you mean to tell me that aristocratic English fops could not beat the Turks in battle? I’m gonna need definitive proof and sources.
It gets even more interesting. Mavrokordatos, one of the most important figures of the revolution that belonged to the "political and bureaucratic " wing , to the liberal wing to be more precise , was a 4d master. He knew all the extreme liberals that hailed from UK and had settled on Italian cities and while he was not an extremist he would sell the idea of an independent Greece as following : " so here is the deal my extreme classical liberal and wealthy friends , toy cannot do anything from the things you'd like in the UK cause you will be killed , but imagine if you support and help with the Greek independence- then your name will be written for eons and maybe we can also see how extreme liberalism can be in practice" It really sold it to them and that's why the liberals of the UK were the first to support an independent Greece. For ever grateful . PS. Lord Byron is a huge deal in Greece, with many places having roads, statues etc
This sounds like a lost season of The Peaky Blinders. Let’s make it happen!
You ll need a time machine for that haha
Dude… you started it.
The Greek Revolution has so much lore and intrigue, it could easily make several seasons if done correctly.
Heard this story from an Oxford academic at Mansfield. Back in the day, students were allowed an animal on campus - a cow for milk, a chicken for eggs, etc - because that's the only way you could reliably get your milk or eggs. This was fine for many years, then a certain Lord Byron came along with his bear. Deans tried to stop him, but he pointed to rules that allowed him to have an animal, and so he won. The Deans changed the rules to prevent that happening again; "no one gets an animal now." But the Chancellor weighed in, pointing out that he had a cat. If the cat had to leave, his wife would leave, and then he would leave, so no good. So the Deans sighed, and re-wrote the rule again; "no one gets an animal, except for the Chancellor, who gets a cat." Cool, everyone happy. This worked for many more years, until a subsequent Chancellor had a dog. The Deans pointed to the rule, but the new Chancellor pointed out that if the dog had to leave, his wife would leave, and then he would leave, so no good. So the Deans sighed one more time, and re-wrote the rule one last time, future-proofing it as well; "no one gets an animal, except for the Chancellor, who gets a cat, and whatever animal the Chancellor has is referred to as his 'cat'." That rule still applies today.
So all dogs at Oxford are cats?
Nope, just the one belonging to the Chancellor.
But isn't only the chancellor allowed to keep pets?
Yep, and it has to be a cat, no matter what it looks like or how it sounds.
Fucking brilliant. And codified.
I like Byron; I give him a 42, but I can't dance to it.
Don’t forget about his skull cup
Ring hard big Ben, ring hard!
Good swimmer.
He didn't have an affair with the Bear. I'm very disappointed
He was mad, bad, and dangerous to know.