Fraser’s “A Day at Marathon” and the Picturesque “Brigands” (1854)
The article “A Day at Marathon” was published in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (April 1854). Fraser’s was a monthly edition devoted to politics,…
read moreThe article “A Day at Marathon” was published in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (April 1854). Fraser’s was a monthly edition devoted to politics,…
read moreWe are pleased to announce that Professor Efrerpi Mitsi will participate in ‘Variants’, the annual conference of The Northeast Victorian Studies Association (Friday March 31 – Sunday…
read moreWilliam 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…
read moreIn the first days of March 1900, the “Art and Literature” section of several British newspapers included a short paragraph on a Greek lady who…
read moreAndronike, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution (1897) was first written in Greek in 1861 by author and journalist Stephanos Theodoros Xenos and was his…
read moreAs American journalist and historian William James Stillman suggested in his book on the 1866 Cretan Insurrection (published in 1874), Greek politics had always relied…
read moreIn a previous post, we reported on a Penny Illustrated piece titled “Cretan Amazons” about a “‘brave, wild, ineffectual, almost suicidal struggle for independence” with…
read moreIn no other place in the world may one be subjected to such direction as this: “ You are in Euripides Street; go down till…
read moreThe 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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