Peloponnesus - Notes of Study and Travel

Klappentext William George Clark published this engaging account of an archaeological tour of the Peloponnese in 1858. Zusammenfassung William George Clark (1821–78), the co-editor of the Cambridge Shakespeare (1863–6), was a classical as well as a literary scholar, and this engaging combination of travel narrative and serious archaeological and topographical research, published in 1858, was the result of an archaeological tour of the Peloponnese in 1856. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: William George Clark, Clark William George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.12.2011
• EAN: 9781108041966
• ISBN: 978-1-108-04196-6
• No. of pages: 372
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, TRAVEL / Europe / Greece, Greece, Ancient World, Archaeology by period / region, Classic Travel Writing, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology