 Poet, academic, soldier and an ardent supporter of the Aestheticism. Robert Chawner Booke was an active advocate of the European tensions that characterize the period of the World War I.
He was born in Rugby, in 1887 and he had a peaceful childhood. As an adult, he was a handsome and sportive man, a clever and hardworking student, and a truly disarming personality, therefore he had acquired admirers of both sexes. The poet Yeats had characterized him ‘the prettiest young man of England'. Apart from the above virtues, Brooke demonstrated artistic creativity. Inspired by Browning, he had begun writing verses from an early age.
In 1906, he was accepted to King's College of Cambridge and he immediately became an active member of the social life at his new environment. His acquaintances included E.M.Forster, Maynard Kanes and Virginia Wolf. He took up activities like acting and he became the president of the branch of the Fabian Society of his College. Being so busy, he might have neglected - at a certain point - his studies in Classics.
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HISTORY
PREHISTORIC AGES
It is not know when was the island first inhabited. The occasional findings are dated since the palaeolithic period. The clues show that the location where the castle is now found was inhabited.
The first palaeolithic settlement (5000BC) is believed to have been at the East of Hora, close to the seaside. A later settlement is that at the castle. After that the Mycenaec Age begun. The marks of that age are still present all over the island.
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MUSEUMS
The two museums of Skyros are located near the plaza of eternal poetry.
 
FALTAITS MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND FOLKLORE
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HIGHLIGHTS OF SKYRIAN MYTHOLOGY
N YMPHS
The locations "Nyfi", "Nyfaki" and "Nyfiri" on the island of Skyros, are places where springs and waters are denotative of the worship of the Nymphs. One can also seek this form of worship there, where relative legends speak of the existence of fairies, for fairies are but the Nymphs themselves, as they have been preserved in the fantasy of the people after this worship was lost and the Nymphs were separated from the oncoming religions.
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