Digital Index

William Makepeace Thackeray and the Palace in Athens
William Makepeace Thackeray and the Palace in Athens 640 334 REVICTO

The fifth chapter of William Thackeray’s travelogue Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Way of Lisbon, Athens, Constantinople, and Jerusalem (1846) offers an account of modern…

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Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Modern Argonauts in 1850s Greece
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Modern Argonauts in 1850s Greece 1446 925 REVICTO

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,…

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Review of The Greek Revolution by Edward Blaquiere (London, 1824)
Review of The Greek Revolution by Edward Blaquiere (London, 1824) 781 591 REVICTO

The introduction to a review of The Greek Revolution by Edward Blaquiere (London, 1824), published in Edinburgh Magazine in June 1824 sees the Greek Revolution as a means by which Greece will…

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The third Zappeian Olympiad in Macmillan’s Magazine in 1875
The third Zappeian Olympiad in Macmillan’s Magazine in 1875 2000 1542 REVICTO

“And all the world of Athens collected on a Sunday afternoon at five o’clock, θαυμάζοντες και θαυμαζόμενοι, as the daily papers said.” In an article which appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine…

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A heroic Greek woman in ‘The seamen of the Cyclades’, 1849
A heroic Greek woman in ‘The seamen of the Cyclades’, 1849 800 639 REVICTO

“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…

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Anon. (1838), “The heroine of Suli”
Anon. (1838), “The heroine of Suli” 1287 979 REVICTO

“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,…

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The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Illustrated Tour of the Crystal Palace
The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Illustrated Tour of the Crystal Palace 1280 720 REVICTO

Historian Dr David De Haan takes you on an illustrated tour of the Crystal Palace during the Great exhibition of 1851. The tour begins at the main entrance of the…

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Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), Pre-Raphaelite painter and artist’s model
Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), Pre-Raphaelite painter and artist’s model 445 583 REVICTO

The model in this photograph is Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), the youngest daughter of Eyphrosyne and Michael Spartali, a wealthy merchant who became Greek consul to London. The Spartalis were…

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Alexander Ionides, an established businessman and art patron in early 1840s England
Alexander Ionides, an established businessman and art patron in early 1840s England 1048 730 REVICTO

Alexander Ionides a member of an Anglo-Greek family came to England in the 1820s to work in his father’s textile business. In 1833, he established his own textile trading company…

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Sketches of Modern Greece in 1837 & 1838
Sketches of Modern Greece in 1837 & 1838 800 466 REVICTO

Anonymous. “Sketches of Modern Greece”. A series of three articles, attributed to James Henry Skene, which attempt to provide the general reader with a broad view of the political, cultural,…

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