“The Greek Boy” or “The Art of Greeking”
On 29 September 1840 Samuel Lover’s musical drama in two acts “The Greek Boy or the Doge’s ring and the Bride of the Adriatic” premiered…
read moreOn 29 September 1840 Samuel Lover’s musical drama in two acts “The Greek Boy or the Doge’s ring and the Bride of the Adriatic” premiered…
read moreBy Fotis Kalivas Fashion trends in the Victorian era had a reputation for borrowing foreign, national, and traditional patterns or pieces of clothing and incorporating…
read moreWe are delighted to announce that on December 10, REVICTO’s principal investigator, Evi Mitsi, gave a lecture as invited speaker at the Benaki Museum. Titled…
read moreRichard Henry Cresswell’s (1846–1925) first novel, A Modern Greek Heroine, was published anonymously in 1880 by Hurst and Blackett in three volumes. Cresswell had given…
read moreVictorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters Edited By Efterpi Mitsi, Anna Despotopoulou Routledge, 2025 Victorians and Modern Greece examines the representation of nineteenth-century…
read moreBy Fotis Kalivas In the July 11, 1857, issue of Harper’s Weekly (published in New York), an illustration depicts two middle-class young women, Arabella-Maria, and…
read moreTwo members of the REVICTO team, Efterpi Mitsi and Anna Despotopoulou, organized a panel on ‘Victorians and Intertemporal Greece’ in the conference ‘The Nineteenth Century…
read moreIsabella Fyvie Mayo, born in London from Scottish parents, was a widely published poet and author; using the nom de plume “Edward Garrett” she published her stories…
read moreAn article entitled “From Corinth to the Parthenon”, published in The Cornhill Magazine on 7 December 1886, vividly describes a British tourist’s first impressions of…
read more