Dionysios Solomos (1798-1857) is Greece's national poet. His major works, written during and after the Greek War of Independence, pivot round the themes of Freedom, the Greek Orthodox Faith, and Motherland. His Hymn to Liberty (1823) became the Greek national anthem. Caught in the mainstream of European Romanticism, Solomos is a cross-cultural bridge, which spans 19th century Romantic Europe with the nascent Greek state.Lambros is a long poem, which the poet revised from 1824 to 1834. The story, set a few years before the Greek revolution describes how Lambros, a freedom warrior and a victim of his own personal choices, believes that Somebody who does as he pleases has trapped him and is leading him to destruction. Lambros could be seen as Solomos' Greek Orthodox answer to the ineluctable nature of classic tragedy or the exaltation of the rebel as a hero.