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A travel-literary companion that interprets Greek places through their literary associations and, conversely, reads ancient and modern texts against the physical landscape. Focused on the mainland and adjacent islands easily reached from Athens, it provides chaptered tours of Piræus, the Acropolis and Athenian neighborhoods, Attica, Eleusis, Ægina, Corinth, Delphi, Thebes, Bœotia, Thermopylæ, Argolis, Arcadia, Olympia, Messenia, and Sparta. Selections and fresh translations of classical authors are set beside maps, illustrations, and local commentary; emphasis falls on myth, religion, historical narrative, and artistic context, while archaeological detail is kept subsidiary to literary and topographical interpretation.

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Title: Greek Lands and Letters

Author: Francis Greenleaf Allinson

Anne C. E. Allinson

Release date: May 3, 2022 [eBook #67984]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1909

Credits: KD Weeks, Tim Lindell, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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GREEK LANDS AND LETTERS

THE PROPYLÆA
From within, looking toward Salamis. From a painting by H. R. Cross

GREEK LANDS AND
LETTERS
BY
FRANCIS GREENLEAF ALLINSON
(Professor of Classical Philology in Brown University)
AND
ANNE C. E. ALLINSON
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
MDCCCCIX
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY FRANCIS G. ALLINSON
AND ANNE C. E. ALLINSON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published December 1909
TO
A. C. E.
AND
S. C. A.