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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…

Ancient Corinth, [between 1898 and 1946]

30/01/2022

The Corinth of William Fullerton Cumming, 1839

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Notes of a wanderer, in search of health through Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey up the Danube, and down the Rhine (1839) A post by Achillia Nefeli Daskalopoulou Auer* Travelers’…

06/01/2022

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

A Romance of a Greek Statue (1885)

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Theodore Bent, the archaeologist and explorer who wrote The Cyclades; or, Life among the Insular Greeks in 1885, published, in that same year, an article whose narrative is set on…

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…

15/12/2021

Annie Brassey at Cephalonia (1878)

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Lady Anna (Annie) Brassey (1839-1887) was an English travel writer married to the liberal politician and Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Thomas Brassey. The Brasseys sailed the Mediterranean in 1874…

21/11/2021

Nineteenth-Century Admiralty Maps of the Greek Coastline and the Aegean Archipelago

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In chapter 8 of Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion (1818), the Miss Mussgroves are poring over “their own Navy List[…] with the professed view of finding out the ships which Captain…

18/10/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Edith Wharton’s Corfiote Carnival

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Edith Wharton’s (1862-1937) The Cruise of the Vanadis is the account of the author’s 1888 Mediterranean cruise from Africa to Italy aboard the private yacht, The Vanadis. The manuscript was…

02/10/2021

Sophia Tricoupis, hostess and “mistress of socio-political diplomacy”

Sophia Tricoupis, hostess and “mistress of socio-political diplomacy” https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sophia-tricoupis.png 826 800 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 02/10/2021 02/10/2021

Daughter of Spyridon Tricoupis, the first Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic in 1833, and sister of the multiply appointed Prime Minister Harilaos Tricoupis (1875-1894), Sophia Tricoupis was born in…

05/09/2021

J. Gennadius on Spyridon Loues and the 1896 Olympic Games in The Illustrated London News

J. Gennadius on Spyridon Loues and the 1896 Olympic Games in The Illustrated London News https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/April-1896-ILN-Olympic-Stadium.jpeg 1240 869 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 05/09/2021 31/03/2022

In April 1896, the Illustrated London News published a text by Joannes Gennadius on the recently completed Olympic Games held in Athens praising Greece for scoring a triumph. The text…

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…

Digital Index

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

The Corinth of William Fullerton Cumming, 1839

A Romance of a Greek Statue (1885)

Byron’s The Isles of Greece Revisited in 1897

Annie Brassey at Cephalonia (1878)

Nineteenth-Century Admiralty Maps of the Greek Coastline and the Aegean Archipelago

Edith Wharton’s Corfiote Carnival

Sophia Tricoupis, hostess and “mistress of socio-political diplomacy”

J. Gennadius on Spyridon Loues and the 1896 Olympic Games in The Illustrated London News

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

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