Rambles and Studies in Greece

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Rambles and Studies in Greece
Authors and Contributors      By (author) John Pentland Mahaffy
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:370
Dimensions(mm): Height 215,Width 140
ISBN/Barcode 9781108073868
ClassificationsDewey:914.950472
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 10 Plates, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 17 April 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.