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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunglar" data-source="post: 484193" data-attributes="member: 854">Byron…Don’t forget the man did a lot of self-promoting and he had a dark streak to him.  Sometimes I think our vision of him is so much the one he would have wanted us to have.Two things I read or heard somewhere that always stuck with me were:First, that he was constantly trying not to gain weight and that he often did biscuits and soda water diets to loose a few pounds.Second, he was a very sexual man, some same sex experimentation going on as well.  But from what I recall he definitely was more into women…There was a movie were Gabriel Byrne played him, can’t remember the film…  I hate it!He died a hero of the Greek people, so I agree with the CN with good tendencies argument someone made on another post.Check out this link for more info:<a href="http://www.englishhistory.net/byron.html" target="_blank">http://www.englishhistory.net/byron.html</a></blockquote>