After the Exodus of Messolongi battel, a new movement was formed called the Philhellenic movement. Philhellenes meant western Europeans being friendly to Hellenes. They were western European being friendly to Hellenes; typically, aristocrats and upper middle class who had been educated on the classics. They were typically Libreal in their political orientation. Clogg, p.36-38. They imagined a modern Greeks as a successor of the ancient Greeks and felt obligation to the descendant of the ancient Greeks and sympathized with the modern Greek plight and their desire for an independent state. So, these aristocrats, middle class, well-educated western Europeans put pressure on their government to do something to save Greeks; to prevent these atrocities.
