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15/03/2023

William Miller’s “Women’s” chapter in Greek Life in Town and Country (1905)

William Miller’s (1864-1945) Greek Life in Town and Country, published in 1905, offers an overview of contemporary life in Greece at the end of the…

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24/02/2023

Hellenic infants and classic English nursery rhymes in 1900 Athens

In the first days of March 1900, the “Art and Literature” section of several British newspapers included a short paragraph on a Greek lady who…

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08/02/2023

The Hetairia in Andronike, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution (1897) by Stephanos Theodoros Xenos

Andronike, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution (1897) was first written in Greek in 1861 by author and journalist Stephanos Theodoros Xenos and was his…

Politics in a nutshell: “ΠYNCH ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝ ΦΙΛΟΙΣΙΝ ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ”, A pseudo-philhellenic poem in 1869 Punch magazine https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Unknown.jpeg 571 881 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 30/01/2023 30/01/2023

30/01/2023

Politics in a nutshell: “ΠYNCH ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝ ΦΙΛΟΙΣΙΝ ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ”, A pseudo-philhellenic poem in 1869 Punch magazine

As American journalist and historian William James Stillman suggested in his book on the 1866 Cretan Insurrection (published in 1874), Greek politics had always relied…

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13/01/2023

Cretan Amazons Revisited

In a previous post, we reported on a Penny Illustrated piece titled “Cretan Amazons” about a “‘brave, wild, ineffectual, almost suicidal struggle for independence” with…

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22/12/2022

On the streets of 1886 Athens

In no other place in the world may one be subjected to such direction as this: “ You are in Euripides Street; go down till…

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15/12/2022

“In the Peiræus. A Reverie” – Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (1864)

The tideless sea rocks with no rippling swell The huge ships borne upon its gloomy breast; No sound disturbs the silence save the bell Which…

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28/11/2022

Poe’s vision of Zakynthos: Sonnet — To Zante (1837)

Despite never having visited Greece, the American Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) seems to have been deeply impressed by the literary figure of the British Lord…

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21/11/2022

The Greek Maiden and Filial Love in the Dublin University Magazine (1847), Part II

Part II: “Erotion – A Tale of Ancient Greece” “Erotion – A Tale of Ancient Greece” propels the reader back to the Homeric age and…

Representations of Modern Greece
in Victorian Popular Culture

William Miller’s “Women’s” chapter in Greek Life in Town and Country (1905)

Hellenic infants and classic English nursery rhymes in 1900 Athens

The Hetairia in Andronike, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution (1897) by Stephanos Theodoros Xenos

Politics in a nutshell: “ΠYNCH ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝ ΦΙΛΟΙΣΙΝ ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ”, A pseudo-philhellenic poem in 1869 Punch magazine

Cretan Amazons Revisited

On the streets of 1886 Athens

“In the Peiræus. A Reverie” – Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (1864)

Poe’s vision of Zakynthos: Sonnet — To Zante (1837)

The Greek Maiden and Filial Love in the Dublin University Magazine (1847), Part II

Representations of Modern Greece
in Victorian Popular Culture

Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture

William Miller’s “Women’s” chapter in Greek Life in Town and Country (1905)

Hellenic infants and classic English nursery rhymes in 1900 Athens

The Hetairia in Andronike, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution (1897) by Stephanos Theodoros Xenos

Politics in a nutshell: “ΠYNCH ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝ ΦΙΛΟΙΣΙΝ ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ”, A pseudo-philhellenic poem in 1869 Punch magazine

Cretan Amazons Revisited

On the streets of 1886 Athens

“In the Peiræus. A Reverie” – Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (1864)

Poe’s vision of Zakynthos: Sonnet — To Zante (1837)

The Greek Maiden and Filial Love in the Dublin University Magazine (1847), Part II

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Representations of Modern Greece
in Victorian Popular Culture