Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (520 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511740268
Serie:
Cambridge library collection. Archaeology
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781108020183
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108020183
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511740268
Mehr zum Autor:
Leake, William Martin 1777-1860
Bookmarklink
