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In the Footsteps of the Gods - Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal (Paperback)
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In the Footsteps of the Gods - Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal (Paperback)
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Gladiators and goddesses, philosophers and poets, epic battles and
romantic landscapes - the classical world has for centuries
captivated and inspired the west. But what provoked the shift from
the western world's love-affair with classical Rome and its
manifestation in the Renaissance, to the Hellenic world? The
decisive switch in focus and taste from Rome to Greece began in the
17th century, when a succession of travellers - mainly from France
and England - journeyed to Greece and what is now Turkey and
rediscovered the Hellenic world. In the Footsteps of the Gods
traces the ways in which the constantly changing ideal image of
ancient Greece, its art, politics and culture, inspired those who
travelled there. With lively accounts of their adventurous journeys
and vivid descriptions of what they saw, discovered, collected and
published about the remains of ancient Greece, it reveals the
extraordinary effects that these travellers' accounts had on the
poets and scholars of the west, who in turn were influential in
creating the idea and ideal of Greece, which became such a powerful
force in the arts and politics of the 18th and early 19th
centuries. At the heart of the book is, in the words of the
classicist, Richard Stoneman, 'a poet's vision of Greece'.
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