← Table of contents
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2

Note 204 — NOTES TO CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. CANTO II.

Reading edition

[The Parthenon was converted into a church in the sixth century by Justinian, and dedicated to the Divine Wisdom. About 1460 the church was turned into a mosque. After the siege in 1687 the Turks erected a smaller mosque within the original enclosure. "The only relic of the mosque dedicated by Mohammed the Conqueror (1430-1481) is the base of the minaret ... at the south-west corner of the Cella" (Handbook for Greece, p. 319).]

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings