William George Clark (1821 78) is probably best remembered as the
co-editor (with W. Aldis Wright) of the Cambridge Shakespeare (1863
6; also reissued in this series). A fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge, he was a classical and literary scholar and editor, but
travelled widely in his vacations, and this work, first published
in 1858, is an account of a tour of Greece undertaken in 1856 with
W. H. Thompson (1810 86), who later succeeded William Whewell as
Master of Trinity. Clark's plan was to visit the archaeological
sites of the Peloponnese using W. M. Leake's various surveys as a
guide and comparing Leake's observations and his own with those of
the ancient traveller Pausanias. The result is an engaging
combination of travel narrative and serious archaeological and
topographical research backed up by a profound knowledge of
classical literature. It remains an interesting resource for those
studying the history of Greek archaeology.
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