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Peloponnesus: Notes of Study and Travel
William George Clark (1821–78) is probably best remembered as the co-editor (with W. Aldis Wright) of the Cambridge Shakespeare (1863–6; also reissued in this series). A fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a classical and literary scholar and editor, but travelled widely in his vacations, and this work, first published in 1858, is an account of a tour of Greece undertaken in 1856 with W. H. Thompson (1810–86), who later succeeded William Whewell as Master of Trinity. Clark's plan was to visit the archaeological sites of the Peloponnese using W. M. Leake's various surveys as a guide and comparing Leake's observations and his own with those of the ancient traveller Pausanias. The result is an engaging combination of travel narrative and serious archaeological and topographical research backed up by a profound knowledge of classical literature. It remains an interesting resource for those studying the history of Greek archaeology.
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Peloponnesus: Notes of Study and Travel
William George Clark (1821–78) is probably best remembered as the co-editor (with W. Aldis Wright) of the Cambridge Shakespeare (1863–6; also reissued in this series). A fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a classical and literary scholar and editor, but travelled widely in his vacations, and this work, first published in 1858, is an account of a tour of Greece undertaken in 1856 with W. H. Thompson (1810–86), who later succeeded William Whewell as Master of Trinity. Clark's plan was to visit the archaeological sites of the Peloponnese using W. M. Leake's various surveys as a guide and comparing Leake's observations and his own with those of the ancient traveller Pausanias. The result is an engaging combination of travel narrative and serious archaeological and topographical research backed up by a profound knowledge of classical literature. It remains an interesting resource for those studying the history of Greek archaeology.
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Peloponnesus: Notes of Study and Travel

Peloponnesus: Notes of Study and Travel

by William George Clark
Peloponnesus: Notes of Study and Travel

Peloponnesus: Notes of Study and Travel

by William George Clark

Overview

William George Clark (1821–78) is probably best remembered as the co-editor (with W. Aldis Wright) of the Cambridge Shakespeare (1863–6; also reissued in this series). A fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a classical and literary scholar and editor, but travelled widely in his vacations, and this work, first published in 1858, is an account of a tour of Greece undertaken in 1856 with W. H. Thompson (1810–86), who later succeeded William Whewell as Master of Trinity. Clark's plan was to visit the archaeological sites of the Peloponnese using W. M. Leake's various surveys as a guide and comparing Leake's observations and his own with those of the ancient traveller Pausanias. The result is an engaging combination of travel narrative and serious archaeological and topographical research backed up by a profound knowledge of classical literature. It remains an interesting resource for those studying the history of Greek archaeology.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108041966
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/29/2011
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
Pages: 372
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Outward bound; 2. From Athens to Megara; 3. The Isthmus - Corinth; 4. Nemea, Mycenae, and Tiryns; 5. Argos, and its neighbourhood; 6. A Greek church; 7. Karya; 8. Nestane and Mantinea; 9. From Tripolitza by Tegea to Sparta; 10. Sparta; 11. Xerókampo - a digression; 12. Taygetus; 13. Kalamata - the Homeric Pherae; 14. Navarino; 15. Vourkamo - Messene - Mavrozoumeno; 16. The black Demeter - Eira; 17. Phigalea - Bassae; 18. From Andritzena by Olympia to Pyrgo; 19. The Plain of Elis - Patras; 20. Vostizza - Megaspelion; 21. Styx; 22. Pheneos - Stymphalus; 23. Albanians, Sclavonians, and Hellenes; 24. Sicyon.
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