Peloponnesus
Notes of Study and Travel

William George Clark published this engaging account of an archaeological tour of the Peloponnese in 1858.

William George Clark (Author)

9781108041966, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 December 2011

372 pages, 5 maps
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.47 kg

William George Clark (1821–78) is probably best remembered as the co-editor (with W. Aldis Wright) of the Cambridge Shakespeare (1863–6; also reissued in this series). A fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a classical and literary scholar and editor, but travelled widely in his vacations, and this work, first published in 1858, is an account of a tour of Greece undertaken in 1856 with W. H. Thompson (1810–86), who later succeeded William Whewell as Master of Trinity. Clark's plan was to visit the archaeological sites of the Peloponnese using W. M. Leake's various surveys as a guide and comparing Leake's observations and his own with those of the ancient traveller Pausanias. The result is an engaging combination of travel narrative and serious archaeological and topographical research backed up by a profound knowledge of classical literature. It remains an interesting resource for those studying the history of Greek archaeology.

Preface
1. Outward bound
2. From Athens to Megara
3. The Isthmus - Corinth
4. Nemea, Mycenae, and Tiryns
5. Argos, and its neighbourhood
6. A Greek church
7. Karya
8. Nestane and Mantinea
9. From Tripolitza by Tegea to Sparta
10. Sparta
11. Xerókampo - a digression
12. Taygetus
13. Kalamata - the Homeric Pherae
14. Navarino
15. Vourkamo - Messene - Mavrozoumeno
16. The black Demeter - Eira
17. Phigalea - Bassae
18. From Andritzena by Olympia to Pyrgo
19. The Plain of Elis - Patras
20. Vostizza - Megaspelion
21. Styx
22. Pheneos - Stymphalus
23. Albanians, Sclavonians, and Hellenes
24. Sicyon.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]