Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence There

by Christopher Wordsworth

Book Overview

Christopher Wordsworth (1807-85), the "Great Christopher" of Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, was a nephew of William the poet, and brother to the student who launched the University Boat Race. In 1832 he took a gap-year, after his brilliant studies in ancient Greek and Latin classics, to travel back in time over two thousand years to Pericles' Athens. The account of his tour, Athens and Attica (1836), is still the perfect scholarly companion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0953992330
• ISBN13: 9780953992331
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.4"