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The Quest for Classical Greece - Early Modern Travel to the Greek World (Hardcover)
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The Quest for Classical Greece - Early Modern Travel to the Greek World (Hardcover)
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Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English
visitors in the seventeenth century. These lands were criss-crossed
by adventurers, merchants, diplomats and men of the cloth. In
particular, John Covel (1638-1722) - chaplain to the Levant Company
in the 1670s, later Master of Christ's College, Cambridge - was
representative of a thoroughly eccentric band of Englishmen who saw
Greece and the Ottoman world through the lens of classical history.
Using a variety of sources, including Covel's largely unpublished
diaries, Lucy Pollard shows that these curious travellers imported,
alongside their copies of Pausanias and Strabo, a package of
assumptions about the societies they discovered. Disparaging
contemporary Greeks as unworthy successors to their classical
ancestors allowed Englishmen to view themselves as the true
inheritors of classical culture, even as - when opportunity arose -
they removed antiquities from the sites they described. At the same
time, they often admired the Turks, about whom they had fewer
preconceptions. This is a major contribution to reception and
post-Restoration ideas about antiquity.
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