Digital Index

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…

Edith Wharton’s Corfiote Carnival https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Corfu_1903.jpeg 640 432 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 18/10/2021 18/10/2021

18/10/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Edith Wharton’s Corfiote Carnival

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 actually discovered more than a…

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

02/10/2021

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

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 London in 1838 and died…

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

05/09/2021

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

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 focused on the figure of…

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 02/02/2023

25/08/2021

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

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 he tried to dispel the…

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

19/08/2021

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

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 matter of maintaining Ottoman integrity…

Frederick William Faber in 1841 Greece https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1844_wordsworth_wood_engraving_p73.jpg 1157 804 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 20/07/2021 20/07/2021

20/07/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Frederick William Faber in 1841 Greece

“A western amid the bewildering glories of pagan Greece and the novelties of the oriental ritual.” Faber, Frederick William. Sights and Thoughts in Foreign Churches and Among Foreign Peoples. London: J.G.F. & J. Rivington, 1842.…

Herman Melville’s 1891 Reminiscence of Syros in 1856 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CPAEG-1.179.jpg 2000 1269 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 15/06/2021 15/06/2021

15/06/2021

Fiction/Poetry

Herman Melville’s 1891 Reminiscence of Syros in 1856

Herman Melville first arrived at the island of Syra (Syros) on board the steamship Egyptian on Tuesday, December 2, 1856. He saw the place a second time, again in December, and a third time, returning…