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07/11/2025

The Grecian Bend: A Stoop of Conscious Indecency

The Grecian Bend: A Stoop of Conscious Indecency https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Vrouw_in_een_tournure_The_Grecian_Bend_RP-F-F10727-1.jpg 988 1141 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 07/11/2025 07/11/2025

Featured image: “Vrouw in een tournure. The Grecian Bend.” (“Woman in bustle. The Grecian Bend.”) Hand-coloured albumen print, part of stereoscopic photograph, created between 1852-1863. Rijksmuseum. Source: wikimendia commons. …

19/03/2025

The Greek Key in Victorian Fashion Plates

The Greek Key in Victorian Fashion Plates https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/1836_worldoffashionco13lond-64_page-0002.jpg 355 1111 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 19/03/2025 19/03/2025

By Fotis Kalivas Fashion trends in the Victorian era had a reputation for borrowing foreign, national, and traditional patterns or pieces of clothing and incorporating them into their designs. The…

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,…

Drawings

The Grecian Bend: A Stoop of Conscious Indecency

The Greek Key in Victorian Fashion Plates

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)

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