konstantina, Author at REVICTO

19/08/2023

Modern Greece in the Victorian Periodical Press, 1821-1897

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The REVICTO team is very pleased to present its new digital research tool, a supplement to REVICTO’s Digital Index. “Modern Grece in the Victorian Periodical Press, 1821-1897” is a bibliographical…

03/07/2023

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REVICTO at Borders and Crossings 2023 – An Interdisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing

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We are very pleased to announce that two REVICTO members will participate at Borders and Crossings 2023, an interdisciplinary conference on travel writing. Professor Efterpi Mitsi will give a keynote…

03/05/2023

Fraser’s “A Day at Marathon” and the Picturesque “Brigands” (1854)

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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, religion, and social conditions, rather…

29/03/2023

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REVICTO in ‘Variants’, the annual conference of The Northeast Victorian Studies Association

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We 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 April 2, 2023, at Barnard…

15/03/2023

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

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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 nineteenth century. The focus of…

24/02/2023

Hellenic infants and classic English nursery rhymes in 1900 Athens

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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 established an infant school in…

08/02/2023

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

The Hetairia in Andronike, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution (1897) by Stephanos Theodoros Xenos https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Lake_of_Stymphalos_in_Arcadia_-_Dodwell_Edward_-_1819.jpg 640 389 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 08/02/2023 29/03/2023

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 most popular novel in Greece…

30/01/2023

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

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

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 too much on the sympathy…

13/01/2023

Cretan Amazons Revisited

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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 fiction-like qualities. This was in…

22/12/2022

On the streets of 1886 Athens

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

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Modern Greece in the Victorian Periodical Press, 1821-1897

REVICTO at Borders and Crossings 2023 – An Interdisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing

Fraser’s “A Day at Marathon” and the Picturesque “Brigands” (1854)

REVICTO in ‘Variants’, the annual conference of The Northeast Victorian Studies Association

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

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