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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…

19/08/2021

Crete as Britain’s “highway to the East” in The Daily News (22 November 1875)

Crete as Britain’s “highway to the East” in The Daily News (22 November 1875) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/1886-Illustrated-London-News-THE-GREEK-CRISIS-BRITISH-AUSTRIAN-AND-TURKISH-SQUADRONS-IN-SUDA-BAY-CRETE-Sat-27-Feb-1886-FRONT-PAGE.png 1071 574 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 19/08/2021 05/09/2021

In November 1875, the Liberal London newspaper The Daily News (22 November 1875, p. 4) responded to the building Eastern crisis by suggesting that Britain’s Eastern Question should not be a…

24/01/2021

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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 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/JMCameronHypatia1024_1-e1630977933287.jpg 445 583 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 24/01/2021 02/10/2021

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…

15/09/2020

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star.

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star. https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Zante-1890.jpeg 640 473 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 15/09/2020 22/04/2021

Excerpt from George Webb Dasent’s highly autobiographical novel, Annals of an Eventful Life (1870). The author explicitly declares the island of Zakynthos as the land of murderers and currants. The…

30/08/2020

Punch’s Handbooks to the Crystal Palace the Greek Court through Mr Owen Jones (1854)

Punch’s Handbooks to the Crystal Palace the Greek Court through Mr Owen Jones (1854) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/vestibule-between-egyptian-and-roman.jpg 1600 1200 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 30/08/2020 22/04/2021

The Greek Court is approached by a façade having three Grecian doorways of the Grecian Doric Order. The visitor is or may be arrested at the principal entrance by what…

31/07/2020

1897 Greece by Underwood & Underwood

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22/05/2020

Virginia Woolf in Tiryns 1906

Virginia Woolf in Tiryns 1906 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/UND.-038.jpg 2000 972 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 22/05/2020 22/04/2021

Virginia Woolf Diary [visit to Greece 1906] Sept. 24, 1906

06/05/2020

Kalamata in 1905

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Kalamata is one of the pleasantest towns of the Peloponnesos. Situated in the rich Messenian plain, among orange groves which recall the golden fruit of the Hesperides, and banana plantations…

22/04/2020

the new Athens 1914

the new Athens 1914 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/a002742.jpg 800 593 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 22/04/2020 22/04/2021

Mr. Thomas H. Mawson, the landscape architect, who has just returned from Athens, after a further interview with the King and Queen of the Hellenes, the Prime Minister (M. Venizelos),…

10/04/2020

George Gissing and the smoking mill-chimneys at Piraeus [1889, 1895]

George Gissing and the smoking mill-chimneys at Piraeus [1889, 1895] https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Piraeus-scaled.jpg 2560 1827 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 10/04/2020 22/04/2021

Langley roused himself from oppressive abstraction, and put into better words this common sense of mirage due to the air and light of Greece. He spoke deliberately, and as if…

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

Crete as Britain’s “highway to the East” in The Daily News (22 November 1875)

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

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star.

Punch’s Handbooks to the Crystal Palace the Greek Court through Mr Owen Jones (1854)

1897 Greece by Underwood & Underwood

Virginia Woolf in Tiryns 1906

Kalamata in 1905

the new Athens 1914

George Gissing and the smoking mill-chimneys at Piraeus [1889, 1895]

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