Abstract
The article summarizes the plot of Thomas Hope's 1819 novel Anastasius, its background in Hope's life, and tries to answer the question, 'Why did Byron feel such envy for its creator?'. In doing so, it examines Hope's satirical attitude to the Greeks and Turks, and queries whether any stable division between the two national identities (of the kind which might, for example, justify the 'Greek War of Independence') can be sustained after reading it. It then looks at the numerous incidents which Byron steals from Hope's narrative in writing Don Juan, and concludes that his indebtedness to Hope is far greater than usually stated.
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