Fiction/Poetry Archives

28/03/2022

Fiction/Poetry

Love and Pirates in Victorian Ancient Athens

Love and Pirates in Victorian Ancient Athens https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/kylix-trading-ship-pirates.jpeg 581 465 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 28/03/2022 28/03/2022

Throughout the nineteenth century popular narratives in periodicals adapted ancient Greek myths and history or created new enjoyable stories which allegorically reflected on Victorian socio-political concerns. In such stories involving…

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 01/04/2022

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…

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…

25/08/2021

Richard Cobden, the Eastern Question, Punch and the Modern Olympians (1836, 1854, 1859)

Richard Cobden, the Eastern Question, Punch and the Modern Olympians (1836, 1854, 1859) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/1.-Richard-Cobden-as-Greek-1854_Land-of-Greece-p.-208.png 611 816 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 25/08/2021 25/08/2021

Richard Cobden, the British politician known for his defense of free trade as the main tenet of foreign policy, published in 1836 the volume Russia and the Eastern Question in which…

15/06/2021

Fiction/Poetry

Herman Melville’s 1891 Reminiscence of Syros in 1856

Herman Melville’s 1891 Reminiscence of Syros in 1856 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CPAEG-1.179.jpg 2000 1269 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 15/06/2021 15/06/2021

Herman Melville first arrived at the island of Syra (Syros) on board the steamship Egyptian on Tuesday, December 2, 1856. He saw the place a second time, again in December,…

12/05/2021

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Modern Argonauts in 1850s Greece

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Modern Argonauts in 1850s Greece https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ILN_02_1850.jpg 1446 925 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 12/05/2021 12/05/2021

The Modern Argonauts You have heard the ancient story, How the gallant sons of Greece, Long ago, with Jason ventured For the fated Golden Fleece; How they traversed distant regions,…

21/02/2021

Fiction/Poetry

A heroic Greek woman in ‘The seamen of the Cyclades’, 1849

A heroic Greek woman in ‘The seamen of the Cyclades’, 1849 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Picture-B.jpg 800 639 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 21/02/2021 02/10/2021

“The Seamen of the Cyclades” features a heroic Greek woman of the Greek Revolution, who, after her Hydriote husband is blinded by a traitor, takes his place in battle, commanding…

10/02/2021

Fiction/Poetry

Anon. (1838), “The heroine of Suli”

Anon. (1838), “The heroine of Suli” https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Picture-Α.png 1287 979 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 10/02/2021 02/10/2021

“The Heroine of Suli” (1838) is narrated by an English traveller to Greece during the Revolution, a self-proclaimed “dreamer” (206), who after being shipwrecked and saved by Suliots becomes fascinated,…

05/12/2020

Fiction/Poetry

Strickland, Agnes (1838), The Azamoglan, A Tale of Modern Greece

Strickland, Agnes (1838), The Azamoglan, A Tale of Modern Greece https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 05/12/2020 02/10/2021

The author of the popular Lives of the Queens of England (12 vols, 1840-48) narrates a tragic tale of abduction and apostacy set in the Greek War of Independence. When…

01/12/2020

Fiction/Poetry

Julia Pardoe (1839), The Romance of the Harem, London: Henry Colburn.

Julia Pardoe (1839), The Romance of the Harem, London: Henry Colburn. https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/romanceofharem01pard.jpg 180 313 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 01/12/2020 02/10/2021

After her successful travelogue The City of the Sultan, Pardoe, a travel writer and historical novelist, published a collection of oriental tales which are narrated by Katinka, a harem slave…

Fiction/Poetry

Love and Pirates in Victorian Ancient Athens

“Vasilissa” in The New Monthly Magazine, 1867

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

Richard Cobden, the Eastern Question, Punch and the Modern Olympians (1836, 1854, 1859)

Herman Melville’s 1891 Reminiscence of Syros in 1856

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Modern Argonauts in 1850s Greece

A heroic Greek woman in ‘The seamen of the Cyclades’, 1849

Anon. (1838), “The heroine of Suli”

Strickland, Agnes (1838), The Azamoglan, A Tale of Modern Greece

Julia Pardoe (1839), The Romance of the Harem, London: Henry Colburn.

Subscribe to our news feed!