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Rambles and Studies in Greece

John Pentland Mahaffy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:17th Apr '14

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These 1876 impressions of a classical scholar's first visit to Greece will be of interest to scholars and travellers alike.

These impressions of his first visit to Greece by the classical scholar and papyrologist J. P. Mahaffy (1839–1919) were published in 1876. His account of the famous Greek sites of Attica, Thebes, Delphi and the Peloponnese is lively and observant, and will be of interest to scholars and travellers alike.The classical scholar J. P. Mahaffy (1839–1919) is known equally for his work on Greek texts and Egyptian papyri (his edition of The Flinders Petrie Papyri is reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection). He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin and spent the rest of his working life there, as a fellow, and ultimately as provost from 1914 until his death. This work, in which Mahaffy records his impressions of his first visit to Greece, was published in 1876. Though it is not uncritical ('Nothing is more melancholy and more disappointing than the first view of the Athenian museums'), his account of the famous Greek sites of Attica, Thebes, Delphi and the Peloponnese is lively and observant, and his preface strongly argues that Greece, at a time of turmoil in Europe, was deserving of greater support from the western powers. The book will be of interest to scholars and travellers alike.

ISBN: 9781108073868

Dimensions: 215mm x 140mm x 23mm

Weight: 470g

370 pages