The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek

Barry Cunliffe (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2001
Allen Lane (Verlag)
978-0-7139-9509-1 (ISBN)

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This volume is a reconstruction of the voyage of the great Greek traveller and writer Pytheas, the first literate man we know to have ever seen the British Isles or the edge of the Arctic.

In 320BC an expedition set out from what is now southern France on an unprecedented journey: to find out what lay beyond the pillars of Hercules (the mouth of the Mediterranean) in the mythological northern lands. Pythias' great journey was both thefirst and last Greek attempt to explore northern Europe. Cunliffe has used this journey to recreate the world through which the Greek ship sailed with its bustling trade, ferocious wars and complex, pre-literate societies. As Pythias sails up the English Channel and becomes the first literate man to visit Britain, to the edge of the Arctic sea-ice, we learn about the world view of classical Greece and about our own ancestors at the furthest limit of written experience.

Barry Cunliffe is Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is FACING THE OCEAN: THE ATLANTIC AND ITS PEOPLES.

Pytheas the Massaliot; the world beyond our sea; escape from the Mediterranean; the lure of tin; the islands of the Pretanni; ultima thule; the magic of amber; return to oblivion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.10.2001
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	145 x 222 mm
Gewicht	354 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7139-9509-2 / 0713995092
ISBN-13	978-0-7139-9509-1 / 9780713995091
Zustand	Neuware