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24/02/2023

Hellenic infants and classic English nursery rhymes in 1900 Athens

Hellenic infants and classic English nursery rhymes in 1900 Athens https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-24-at-12.18.01-PM.jpeg 554 524 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 24/02/2023 24/02/2023

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…

13/01/2023

Cretan Amazons Revisited

Cretan Amazons Revisited https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cretan-amazons-2.jpg 595 533 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 13/01/2023 13/01/2023

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

On the streets of 1886 Athens https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1886-Graphic-Athens-Illustrated-Part-1-Saturday-11-September-1886-5-2.jpg 850 1285 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 22/12/2022 22/12/2022

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.…

28/11/2022

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

Poe’s vision of Zakynthos: Sonnet — To Zante (1837) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1.Vue_et_port_de_Zacynthe_Zante_-_Stackelberg_Otto_Magnus_Von_-_1834.jpeg 640 445 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 28/11/2022 29/03/2023

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 Byron and his Philhellenic stance.…

14/11/2022

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

The Greek Maiden and Filial Love in the Dublin University Magazine (1847) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/pitzamanos_-28-.jpg 849 1200 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 14/11/2022 29/03/2023

Part I: “The Pearl of the Bosphorus – a Tale of the Phanar” In 1847, two Greek-themed short stories were published anonymously in the Dublin University Magazine. The first is…

09/09/2022

“A Greek Hamlet” (1880)

“A Greek Hamlet” (1880) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/A1.jpeg 400 701 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 09/09/2022 09/09/2022

“A Greek Hamlet.” Fraser’s magazine 610 (Oct 1880): 511-527 “A Greek Hamlet” fictionalizes and revises the story of Periander, Tyrant of Corinth in the 6th century BC, as found in…

14/03/2022

“Vasilissa” in The New Monthly Magazine, 1867

“Vasilissa” in The New Monthly Magazine, 1867 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/H._Helley_-_Portrait_of_Kira_Vassiliki.jpg 1531 2000 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 14/03/2022 10/08/2022

In 1867, a story entitled “Vasilissa”, which was published in The New Monthly Magazine, revisited the Greek War of Independence, centring on the figure of a Greek woman who is…

25/02/2022

Cretan Amazons: A dress destined to affect the Parisian and English fashions (The Penny Illustrated, Jan. 1869)

Cretan Amazons: A dress destined to affect the Parisian and English fashions (The Penny Illustrated, Jan. 1869) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1869-PIP-Cretan-Amazons-Jan9-2-2.jpg 907 933 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 25/02/2022 25/02/2022

The date is January 9, 1869, the 1866 Cretan Revolt is near its end and The Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times publishes a short article on a ‘brave, wild, ineffectual,…

16/02/2022

“The Recent Earthquakes in Greece: Survivors Camping out at Atalante” (ILN, 2 June 1894)

“The Recent Earthquakes in Greece: Survivors Camping out at Atalante” (ILN, 2 June 1894) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1894-Atalante-earthquake-cover-survivors-ILN-02-June-189_page-0001.jpg 1029 1751 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 16/02/2022 17/02/2022

Originally published in 1842, The Illustrated London News (ILN) was the first newspaper to allow the image to get integrated in the news. As a dissemination of news from outside Britain was slow…

20/12/2021

Byron’s The Isles of Greece Revisited in 1897

Byron’s The Isles of Greece Revisited in 1897 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1897-Scenes-Canea-Bay-cover-ILN-March-1of2_page-0001.jpg 1240 1755 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 20/12/2021 20/12/2021

The date is March 4, 1897. Henry Labouchère’s widely circulated London society journal the Truth publishes a parody of Byron’s ‘The Isles of Greece’ under the following introduction: Byron is…

Drawings

Hellenic infants and classic English nursery rhymes in 1900 Athens

Cretan Amazons Revisited

On the streets of 1886 Athens

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

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

“A Greek Hamlet” (1880)

“Vasilissa” in The New Monthly Magazine, 1867

Cretan Amazons: A dress destined to affect the Parisian and English fashions (The Penny Illustrated, Jan. 1869)

“The Recent Earthquakes in Greece: Survivors Camping out at Atalante” (ILN, 2 June 1894)

Byron’s The Isles of Greece Revisited in 1897

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