The glory of modern Greece was crowned neither with the olive of the ancients

nor with the diadem of Byzantium. -Aegean Notebooks by Z. Lorenzatos

Καὶ'ς τὴν κόμη στεφάνι φορεῖ
Γινομένο ἀπὸ λίγα χορτάρια
Ποῦ εἰχαν μείνῃ 'ς τὴν ἔρημη γῆ.

                                                 -Δ. Σολωμός

“And her head is adorned with a crown

Fashioned out of the last few grasses

That were left upon the desolate earth.”