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18/11/2023

The “Industrious Spiders of Modern Greece”

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An article entitled “From Corinth to the Parthenon”, published in The Cornhill Magazine on 7 December 1886, vividly describes a British tourist’s first impressions of Greece. Upon arriving at Corinth,…

03/05/2023

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

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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…

22/12/2022

On the streets of 1886 Athens

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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.…

01/06/2022

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

A Week in 1870s Athens

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Blackwood’s Magazine dedicated nineteen pages to the description of ‘A Week in Athens’ in its September 1880 issue. The author of the piece was George A. Macmillan, one of the…

18/05/2022

A British Hospital in Piraeus, 1897

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“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…

28/03/2022

Fiction/Poetry

Love and Pirates in Victorian Ancient Athens

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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…

13/03/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

The third Zappeian Olympiad in Macmillan’s Magazine in 1875

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“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…

03/01/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Sketches of Modern Greece in 1837 & 1838

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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,…

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

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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),…

Athens

The “Industrious Spiders of Modern Greece”

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

On the streets of 1886 Athens

A Week in 1870s Athens

A British Hospital in Piraeus, 1897

Love and Pirates in Victorian Ancient Athens

The third Zappeian Olympiad in Macmillan’s Magazine in 1875

Sketches of Modern Greece in 1837 & 1838

Kalamata in 1905

the new Athens 1914

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