Fiction/Poetry Archives

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…

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…

15/12/2022

“In the Peiræus. A Reverie” – Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (1864)

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The tideless sea rocks with no rippling swell The huge ships borne upon its gloomy breast; No sound disturbs the silence save the bell Which marks the hour; and answering…

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.…

21/11/2022

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

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Part II: “Erotion – A Tale of Ancient Greece” “Erotion – A Tale of Ancient Greece” propels the reader back to the Homeric age and relates a situation of crisis.…

14/11/2022

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

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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…

25/10/2022

Mary Louisa Whately’s “Greek Slave” in Egypt

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In 1870, just after the Cretan Revolt of 1866-1869, Mary Louisa Whately (1824-1889), an English missionary in Egypt, published a story entitled “The Greek Slave,” returning to the figure of…

10/10/2022

“A Modern Nausicaa” and Tourism in Corfu

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“A Modern Nausicaa.” All the Year Round 4:87 (Aug 30, 1890): 210-216 At the dawn of mass tourism in the late Victorian period, Corfu was a very popular destination for…

Fiction/Poetry

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

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

“In the Peiræus. A Reverie” – Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (1864)

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

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

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

Mary Louisa Whately’s “Greek Slave” in Egypt

“A Modern Nausicaa” and Tourism in Corfu

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