Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania

Published in 1820, this illustrated two-volume account traces a two-year trip through Spain, Sicily, Greece, Albania and Italy.

Thomas Smart Hughes (Author)

9781108077576, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 December 2014

570 pages, 31 b/w illus. 2 maps
25.4 x 17.8 x 2.9 cm, 0.98 kg

Between 1812 and 1814, Cambridge fellow and cleric Thomas Smart Hughes (1786–1847) and Robert Townley Parker, later an MP for Preston, embarked on a tour of Mediterranean countries, 'those theatres of the most interesting events recorded in the annals of history'. This two-volume account of their travels, illustrated with plates from the drawings of the architect Charles Robert Cockerell, was first published in 1820. In Volume 1, Hughes describes their arrival in Gibraltar, their experiences in Sicily, and their visits to many important classical sites in Greece, noting important historical events that took place at each location and describing the local legends, habits and customs. He quotes freely from other travel writers of the time, as well as from ancient authors and inscriptions encountered on the tour. Included also are anecdotes which render this account vivid and readable, allowing the author's personality and opinions to reveal themselves.

1. Arrival in Sicily
2. Journey to Syracuse
3. Site of Acradina
4. Catania and Messina
5. View of the city of Zante
6. Patras to Argos
7. Argos and Tiryns
8. Journey to Athens
9. Walk in Athens
10. Excursions from Athens
11. Thebes and Livadia
12. Delphi
13. From Delphi to Prevesa
14. Prevesa and Nicopolis
15. Arta and Ioannina
16. Visit to the Vizir in the fortress
17. Departure for an excursion into Thesprotia
A dissertation on the Oracle of Dodona Samuel Butler.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]