In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal [Audiobook] download free by David Constantine
- Listen audiobook: In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travellers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal
- Author: David Constantine
- Release date: 2011/3/11
- Publisher: I.B.TAURIS & CO. LTD.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781848855458
- Rating: 7.1 of 10
- Votes: 740
- Review by: Aubrie Cramer
- Review rating: 7.62 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/4
- Duration: 3H18M9S in 256 kbps (52.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, AU, WMA, AC3, MPEG4, AIFF, MP3, FLAC (compression RAR, DMG, RZ, GZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 264
- Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M49S (5.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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'.
- Other categories, genre or collection: European History, Guidebooks, Travel Writing, Classical History / Classical Civilisation, Classic Travel Writing
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.02 USD
- Dimensions: 127x195.58x22.86mm
- Weight: 299.37g
- Printed by: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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