Travels in Crete

A two-volume account of a British scholar's travels through Crete while it was under Egyptian administration, published in 1837.

Robert Pashley (Author)

9781108050821, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 June 2012

380 pages, 38 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.48 kg

Robert Pashley (1805–59) spent 1833–4 exploring Greece and Turkey as a Trinity College, Cambridge Travelling Fellow and contributor to a British survey of the Mediterranean, yet it was the island of Crete that most captivated his attention; his travels there became the subject of this two-volume account, published in 1837. The following year, Pashley's notes, collected artefacts and books were destroyed in a fire, so this work is all that remains from his expedition to the island. Crete at various points in its history had been ruled by Romans, Byzantines, Venetians and Ottomans. At the time of Pashley's arrival it was under Egyptian administration and there were palpable tensions between Christians and Muslims. In Volume 1, Pashley begins his journey in the western town of Chania, and his lively narrative weaves contemporary observations about Cretans with a discussion of the island's rich history.

Preface
Introduction
1. View of the White Mountains
2. Visit to Haghios Elevtherios
3. From Khania to Palaeokastron near the bay of Sudha
4. Description of the ruins at Palaeokastron
5. Plain of Apokorona
6. Captain Manias
7. Rhithymna
8. Ghazaro
9. Gonies to Tylisso, the site of Tylissos
10. Visit to Mustafa-pasha
11. Visit to the archbishop
12. Population of Megalo-kastron
13. Kastron to Arkhanes
14. Monastery of St George
15. From Sarko to Rhogdhia
16. Events at Rhogdhia during the war
17. Departure from Hierapetra
18. The muezzin's summons to prayer
19. Haghius Dheka
20. Monastery of Asomatos.

Subject Areas: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology [HDDK]