Frank Abney Hastings It has been thirteen years that the Filiki Eteria, a society of Greek patriots, was founded in the hope of liberating Greece from the Ottoman rule. Eleftheria i Thanatos - Freedom or Death - was their bold motto. It has six years that the uprising begun and progressively succeeded in freeing territories, including Athens. It has been three years that Poet George Gordon Byron, leading character of the European supporters of the greek revolt, died at 36