Travels in the Morea

The influential and authoritative survey of the historical geography of the Peloponnese region of Greece, first published in 1830.

William Martin Leake (Author)

9781108020176, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 October 2010

562 pages, 7 maps
21.6 x 3.2 x 14 cm, 0.71 kg

William 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. Volume 2 recounts his second journey in 1806.

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.

Subject Areas: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology [HDDK]