Travels in the Morea 3 Volume Set
Travels in the Morea 3 Volume Set
£119.00
GBPWilliam Martin Leake (1777–1860) was a British military officer and classical scholar specialising in reconstructing the topography of ancient cities. He was a founding member of the Royal Geographical Society and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815. After his retirement in 1815, he devoted the rest of his life to topographical and classical studies. These volumes, first published in 1830, contain Leake's authoritative topographical survey of the Peloponnese. Written in the form of a travelogue describing two journeys Leake undertook in the Peloponnese in 1805 and 1806, these volumes provide detailed descriptions of the ancient archaeological sites and the historical geography of the region. Leake was the first scholar to identify many ancient sites in the Peloponnese, and his precise observations led to these volumes becoming authoritative for the classical archaeological sites of the region.
Product details
December 2010Multiple copy pack
9781108020190
1659 pages
330 × 252 × 162 mm
2.56kg
13 b/w illus. 17 maps
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- 1. Eleia
- 2. Triphylia
- 3. Messenia, Arcadia
- 4. Arcadia, Laconia
- 5. Laconia
- 6. Laconia
- 7. Laconia
- 8. Laconia
- 9. Messenia
- 10. Messenia
- 11. Messenia, Arcadia. Volume 2:
- 12. Arcadia
- 13. Arcadia
- 14. Arcadia, Achaia
- 15. Achaia, Eleia
- 16. Eleia
- 17. Eleia, Arcadia
- 18. Arcadia
- 19. Argeia
- 20. Argeia
- 21. Ancient geography of the Argolic peninsula
- 22. Argeia, Laconia. Volume 3:
- 23. Laconia, Arcadia
- 24. Arcadia
- 25. Arcadia
- 26. Arcadia, Achaia
- 27. Achaia
- 28. Corinthia
- 29. Corinthia
- 30. Phliasia, Sicyonia
- 31. Achaia
- Index.
