Digital Index

Modern Greece in Zell’s Popular Encyclopedia (1871, 1887) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/modern_girl_Moraites.jpg 1344 994 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 07/06/2021 07/06/2021

07/06/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Modern Greece in Zell’s Popular Encyclopedia (1871, 1887)

Zell’s Popular Encyclopedia, a two-volume work of 2500 pages in quarto size, was published in Philadelphia (USA) in 1871 and again in 1887 in a slightly revised form. The subtitle of the 1871 edition describes…

‘The only interesting geography is geography of three dimensions’: Williams George Clark in Peloponnesus and from Athos to Salonica (1858, 1863) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 02/06/2021 02/06/2021

02/06/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

‘The only interesting geography is geography of three dimensions’: Williams George Clark in Peloponnesus and from Athos to Salonica (1858, 1863)

“The only interesting geography is geography of three dimensions; and a knowledge of any country derived from actual inspection, gives an unsuspected significance and a new interest to the study of its history and its…

William Makepeace Thackeray and the Palace in Athens https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Royal-Palace-Athens.png 640 334 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 23/05/2021 23/05/2021

23/05/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

William Makepeace Thackeray and the Palace in Athens

The fifth chapter of William Thackeray’s travelogue Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Way of Lisbon, Athens, Constantinople, and Jerusalem (1846) offers an account of modern Athens that is decidedly disassociated…

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Modern Argonauts in 1850s Greece https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ILN_02_1850.jpg 1446 925 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 12/05/2021 12/05/2021

12/05/2021

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Modern Argonauts in 1850s Greece

The Modern Argonauts You have heard the ancient story, How the gallant sons of Greece, Long ago, with Jason ventured For the fated Golden Fleece; How they traversed distant regions, How they trod on hostile…

Review of The Greek Revolution by Edward Blaquiere (London, 1824) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/The-Greek-Revolution-by-Edward-Blaquiere-London-1824.png 781 591 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 04/04/2021 04/04/2021

04/04/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Review of The Greek Revolution by Edward Blaquiere (London, 1824)

The introduction to a review of The Greek Revolution by Edward Blaquiere (London, 1824), published in Edinburgh Magazine in June 1824 sees the Greek Revolution as a means by which Greece will recapture its ancient glory. “It is…

The third Zappeian Olympiad in Macmillan’s Magazine in 1875 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/L143.045.jpg 2000 1542 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 13/03/2021 04/04/2021

13/03/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

The third Zappeian Olympiad in Macmillan’s Magazine in 1875

“And all the world of Athens collected on a Sunday afternoon at five o’clock, θαυμάζοντες και θαυμαζόμενοι, as the daily papers said.” In an article which appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine in 1875, classicist John Pentland…

A heroic Greek woman in ‘The seamen of the Cyclades’, 1849 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Picture-B.jpg 800 639 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 21/02/2021 02/10/2021

21/02/2021

Fiction/Poetry

A heroic Greek woman in ‘The seamen of the Cyclades’, 1849

“The Seamen of the Cyclades” features a heroic Greek woman of the Greek Revolution, who, after her Hydriote husband is blinded by a traitor, takes his place in battle, commanding three vessels, three captains, and…

Anon. (1838), “The heroine of Suli” https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Picture-Α.png 1287 979 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 10/02/2021 02/10/2021

10/02/2021

Fiction/Poetry

Anon. (1838), “The heroine of Suli”

“The Heroine of Suli” (1838) is narrated by an English traveller to Greece during the Revolution, a self-proclaimed “dreamer” (206), who after being shipwrecked and saved by Suliots becomes fascinated, even obsessed, with the heroine…

The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Illustrated Tour of the Crystal Palace https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/maxresdefault.jpg 1280 720 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 30/01/2021 30/01/2021

30/01/2021

The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Illustrated Tour of the Crystal Palace

Historian Dr David De Haan takes you on an illustrated tour of the Crystal Palace during the Great exhibition of 1851. The tour begins at the main entrance of the glass and iron construction that…

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

24/01/2021

Photos

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

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 cosmopolitan and their children, Marie,…

Alexander Ionides, an established businessman and art patron in early 1840s England https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/87628566-e1630977870915.jpg 1048 730 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 10/01/2021 07/09/2021

10/01/2021

Drawings

Alexander Ionides, an established businessman and art patron in early 1840s England

Alexander Ionides a member of an Anglo-Greek family came to England in the 1820s to work in his father’s textile business. In 1833, he established his own textile trading company Ionides & Co. Ionides commissioned…

Sketches of Modern Greece in 1837 & 1838 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/James-Skene.jpg 800 466 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 03/01/2021 04/01/2021

03/01/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Sketches of Modern Greece in 1837 & 1838

Anonymous. “Sketches of Modern Greece”. A series of three articles, attributed to James Henry Skene, which attempt to provide the general reader with a broad view of the political, cultural, and financial state of modern…