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12 his somnolent crew, early nineteenth century.

 

13 A girl of Chíos, by George Rumpf, dated c.1768–9. Travellers often commented on the striking dress and saucy manner of the Chíos girls.

 

14 By contrast, a rather more sedate girl of Náxos.

 

15 Extracting Lemnian earth. A woodcut of 1575 from A. Thevet,
Cosmographie Universelle
(Paris, 1575). The Greeks doing the extracting, holding banners and crosses, are just visible in the middle distance. The Turks doing the exporting are prominent in the foreground.

 

16 The importance of going to church. The priest on the tower beats the wooden
símantron
to summon the faithful, while devils beguile those who stay in bed. Early nineteenth-century wall painting from a village church in Pílion.

 

17 A Balkan brigand, armed to the teeth, by Carl Haag.

 

Two prophets of revolution

18 Rígas Pheréos.

 

19 Adhamántios Kora
ḯ
s.

 

20 Greece as a destitute and oppressed maiden, standing beside a ruined statue of Homer. An illustration from Kora
ḯ
s’ work
Trumpet Call to War
– though Kora
ḯ
s thought the war of independence was premature.

 

Dramatisation of the war of independence, then and later.

21 A The bereaved mother prepares to commit suicide at the fall of Mesolongi (de Lansac, 1828).

 

22 Angels in brigand dress attend the birth of Kolokotrónis (Thémis Tsirónis, 1986).

 
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