Itinerary of the Morea: Being a Description of the Routes of that Peninsula

di William Gell (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2012

Classical topographer Sir William Gell (1777-1836) first came to public attention with his Topography of Troy (1804). Based on his travels around Bunarbashi, near to where Schliemann would subsequently excavate, the work became a standard treatise. Byron even wrote: 'Of Dardan tours let dilettanti tell, / I leave topography to classic Gell.' A noted conversationalist and intellectual intermediary, Gell became a Fellow of the Royal Society and, indeed, a Member of the Society of Dilettanti. He also served, in 1803, on a diplomatic mission to the Ionian Islands; his subsequent journey, with the archaeologist Edward Dodwell, through the Peloponnese - then known as the Morea - became the subject of several later books, including Narrative of a Journey in the Morea (1823; also reissued in this series) and this 1817 publication. Comprising a survey of routes through the area, and their natural and archaeological landmarks, it sheds light on both contemporary Greece and the practicalities of early topographical study.

• Autore: William Gell
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
• Anno: 2012
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 270 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 350 gr.
• EAN: 9781108050814

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