The Quest for Classical Greece

Early Modern Travel to the Greek World

Lucy Pollard (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2015
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78076-961-5 (ISBN)

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Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English visitors in the seventeenth century. These lands were criss-crossed by adventurers, merchants, diplomats and men of the cloth. In particular, John Covel (1638-1722) - chaplain to the Levant Company in the 1670s, later Master of Christ's College, Cambridge - was representative of a thoroughly eccentric band of Englishmen who saw Greece and the Ottoman world through the lens of classical history. Using a variety of sources, including Covel's largely unpublished diaries, Lucy Pollard shows that these curious travellers imported, alongside their copies of Pausanias and Strabo, a package of assumptions about the societies they discovered. Disparaging contemporary Greeks as unworthy successors to their classical ancestors allowed Englishmen to view themselves as the true inheritors of classical culture, even as - when opportunity arose - they removed antiquities from the sites they described. At the same time, they often admired the Turks, about whom they had fewer preconceptions. This is a major contribution to reception and post-Restoration ideas about antiquity.

Lucy Pollard is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and Birkbeck, University of London, UK. She is retired from a career as a librarian, book indexer and teacher.

Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Map

Introduction
1. The Logistics of Travel
2. Scholars and Texts
3. Antiquities, Proto-Archaeologists and Collectors
4. Among the Greeks
5. Among the Turks
6. Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.1.2015
Zusatzinfo	23 bw illus
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-78076-961-X / 178076961X
ISBN-13	978-1-78076-961-5 / 9781780769615
Zustand	Neuware