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 3 contains the conclusion of his second journey.
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