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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 May 2013
      02 August 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139333764
      9781108050814
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139333764
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 270 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Art and Architecture
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Art and Architecture
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
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    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.

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