Sunday December 19, 2021
7 PM

The historiography of the philhellenic movement has focused almost exclusively on male supporters of the Greek uprising, centred around heroic literary and military figures such as Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Victor Hugo and Samuel Gridley Howe. However, recent historical research indicates that there were more women Philhellenes in the European nations, the trans-Caucasus, and America than previously known. We present the growing corpus of knowledge on the theme as our thanks to the people of those nations who rose to ameliorate the suffering of the Greek people and to assist them at the time when the Revolution was at its most precarious state.

We also come together with our friends from the Romanian, Italian, Swiss, English, and French-American communities of Western Pennsylvania, to thank the people of the nations where they come from, for the support they provided to the people of Greece, on the occasion of the celebration of the Bicentennial of the Greek Revolution of 1821.