Digital Index

A British Hospital in Piraeus, 1897 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Hospital-1.jpeg 2339 1505 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 18/05/2022 09/09/2022

18/05/2022

A British Hospital in Piraeus, 1897

“The hospital at the Piraeus is one of the fruits of the English National Fund which the editor of the Daily Chronicle started on behalf of the Greek wounded.” (The Sketch, 16 June 1897). The…

“The Highland mountains in the west, / I tell you are by far the best!”: a 1857 Scottish view of the Byronic Isles https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1897-PIP-GREEK-ARTILLERY-EMBARKING-FOR-CANEA-AT-THE-PIRAEUS-Highlanders-March-27-4.jpg 850 686 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 18/04/2022 18/04/2022

18/04/2022

“The Highland mountains in the west, / I tell you are by far the best!”: a 1857 Scottish view of the Byronic Isles

In 1857, Andrew Park, author of Egypt and the East, Or, Travels On Sea and Land (Glasgow, 1857) saw “the famous Isles of Greece”, the Paisley Herald and Renfrewshire Advertiser notes (“Literature”, December 19, 1857),…

Love and Pirates in Victorian Ancient Athens https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/kylix-trading-ship-pirates.jpeg 581 465 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 28/03/2022 28/03/2022

28/03/2022

Fiction/Poetry

Love and Pirates in Victorian Ancient Athens

Throughout the nineteenth century popular narratives in periodicals adapted ancient Greek myths and history or created new enjoyable stories which allegorically reflected on Victorian socio-political concerns. In such stories involving invented characters and situations, ancient…

“Vasilissa” in The New Monthly Magazine, 1867 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/H._Helley_-_Portrait_of_Kira_Vassiliki.jpg 1531 2000 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 14/03/2022 10/08/2022

14/03/2022

“Vasilissa” in The New Monthly Magazine, 1867

In 1867, a story entitled “Vasilissa”, which was published in The New Monthly Magazine, revisited the Greek War of Independence, centring on the figure of a Greek woman who is victimized not only by the…

Meteora: “The Monasteries in the Air” in the Victorian periodical press, 1880 and 1888 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Fig_1_L047.043.jpg 2000 1563 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 01/03/2022 01/03/2022

01/03/2022

Meteora: “The Monasteries in the Air” in the Victorian periodical press, 1880 and 1888

Meteora, as a location of singular natural beauty as well as of particular interest to the students of Byzantine art, was included in Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in Greece from its first edition in 1840…

Cretan Amazons: A dress destined to affect the Parisian and English fashions (The Penny Illustrated, Jan. 1869) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1869-PIP-Cretan-Amazons-Jan9-2-2.jpg 907 933 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 25/02/2022 25/02/2022

25/02/2022

Cretan Amazons: A dress destined to affect the Parisian and English fashions (The Penny Illustrated, Jan. 1869)

The date is January 9, 1869, the 1866 Cretan Revolt is near its end and The Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times publishes a short article on a ‘brave, wild, ineffectual, almost suicidal struggle for independence’…

“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

16/02/2022

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

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 and special correspondents were sent…

Ancient Corinth, [between 1898 and 1946]

The Corinth of William Fullerton Cumming, 1839 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Corinth-matpc-07400-07406v.jpeg 577 480 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 30/01/2022 30/01/2022

30/01/2022

The Corinth of William Fullerton Cumming, 1839

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’ accounts were one of the…

A Romance of a Greek Statue (1885) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Sikinos.jpeg 1500 1111 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 06/01/2022 06/01/2022

06/01/2022

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

A Romance of a Greek Statue (1885)

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 the Greek island of Sikinos…

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

20/12/2021

Byron’s The Isles of Greece Revisited in 1897

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 very much in the air…

Annie Brassey at Cephalonia (1878) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/002-Brassey-group-banjo.jpeg 576 480 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 15/12/2021 15/12/2021

15/12/2021

Annie Brassey at Cephalonia (1878)

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 and 1878 on board the…

Nineteenth-Century Admiralty Maps of the Greek Coastline and the Aegean Archipelago https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Fig_1-1.jpg 943 1500 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 21/11/2021 21/11/2021

21/11/2021

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

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 Wentworth had commanded” (1248), among…