Dionysios Solomos, 1823: the first stanzas that became the Greek national anthem — a Greek myth retold in easy Greek, level B1, with glossary and audio.

Dionysios Solomos wrote the Hymn to Liberty in 1823, during the Greek Revolution; of its 158 stanzas, the first two were later set to music and became the national anthem of Greece and Cyprus. After a short introduction, the page gives those two stanzas, which greet Liberty as rising from the sacred bones of the Greeks. Readers meet older poetic language, including the ancient greeting 'chaire', with a glossary that unpacks words like 'blade' and 'brave'.