Dilessi murders
The brigands responsible for the murders are brought to Athens for trial, from The Illustrated London News
The Dilessi murders were committed in 1870, when three English and one Italian aristocrat were murdered at Dilesi (Greek: Δήλεσι), a coastal town in eastern Boeotia, by Greek brigands while touring the area near Marathon. The events triggered a crisis between Greece and Great Britain.
Further reading
- Notes on the recent murders by brigands in Greece. Cartwright. 1870., contemporary report on the incident by Ioannes Gennadius, founder of the Gennadius Library
- The Dilessi murders. Prion. 1998-08-01. ISBN 9781853752803., first modern monography on the subject by Romilly James Heald Jenkins
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