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Fraser’s “A Day at Marathon” and the Picturesque “Brigands” (1854) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Cook.jpg 1707 1078 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 03/05/2023 03/05/2023

03/05/2023

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

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 than a literary magazine in…

William Miller’s “Women’s” chapter in Greek Life in Town and Country (1905) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO.0431004.jpg 1567 1580 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 15/03/2023 29/03/2023

15/03/2023

William Miller’s “Women’s” chapter in Greek Life in Town and Country (1905)

William Miller’s (1864-1945) Greek Life in Town and Country, published in 1905, offers an overview of contemporary life in Greece at the end of the nineteenth century. The focus of the book ranges from “National…

Hellenic infants and classic English nursery rhymes in 1900 Athens https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-24-at-12.18.01-PM.jpeg 554 524 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 24/02/2023 24/02/2023

24/02/2023

Hellenic infants and classic English nursery rhymes in 1900 Athens

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 Athens and used her knowledge…

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

08/02/2023

The Hetairia in Andronike, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution (1897) by Stephanos Theodoros Xenos

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 (Kafkalidis 2). Xenos (1821-1894) was…

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

30/01/2023

Politics in a nutshell: “ΠYNCH ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝ ΦΙΛΟΙΣΙΝ ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ”, A pseudo-philhellenic poem in 1869 Punch magazine

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 of Christendom and classical scholars…

Cretan Amazons Revisited https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cretan-amazons-2.jpg 595 533 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 13/01/2023 13/01/2023

13/01/2023

Cretan Amazons Revisited

In a previous post, we reported on a Penny Illustrated piece titled “Cretan Amazons” about a “‘brave, wild, ineffectual, almost suicidal struggle for independence” with fiction-like qualities. This was in early January 1869 as the…

On the streets of 1886 Athens https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1886-Graphic-Athens-Illustrated-Part-1-Saturday-11-September-1886-5-2.jpg 850 1285 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 22/12/2022 22/12/2022

22/12/2022

On the streets of 1886 Athens

In no other place in the world may one be subjected to such direction as this: “ You are in Euripides Street; go down till you come to Praxiteles Street. At the end of that…

“In the Peiræus. A Reverie” – Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (1864) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SEB.01.jpg 1500 1076 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 15/12/2022 29/03/2023

15/12/2022

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

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 to the rest, The sentry’s…

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

28/11/2022

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

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. In fact, Poe’s sympathy for…

The Greek Maiden and Filial Love in the Dublin University Magazine (1847), Part II https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Iphigenia_in_Tauris_by_V.Serov_1893.jpg 800 541 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 21/11/2022 29/03/2023

21/11/2022

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

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. It then poses a dilemma…

The Greek Maiden and Filial Love in the Dublin University Magazine (1847) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/pitzamanos_-28-.jpg 849 1200 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 14/11/2022 29/03/2023

14/11/2022

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

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 entitled “The Pearl of Bosphorus…

Mary Louisa Whately’s “Greek Slave” in Egypt https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/A-typical-Egyptian-village-in-the-Nile-Valley.jpg 1024 583 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 25/10/2022 25/10/2022

25/10/2022

Mary Louisa Whately’s “Greek Slave” in Egypt

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 the Greek captive almost fifty…