This item has FREE SHIPPING to any address in NZ

NOTE: Item will ship from our Australian warehouse. A handling time of 2-4 business days applies for all orders. Delivery will then take 3-7 working days.

In the Footsteps of the Gods

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781848855458 Author(s): David Constantine Format: Paperback Year: 2011 Publisher: I.b.tauris & Co Ltd Dimensions: 198 x 27 x 130 (w x l x h) Pages: 264

BUYER OFFERS: We are a retail store with set pricing and unfortunately we can't fulfil any requests to sell items for less than the listed price.

Description: The classical world has for centuries influenced and inspired the west— its poetry and literature, art, architecture— but what provoked the move from the wests love-affair with classical Rome and its manifestation in the Renaissance, to its focus on the Hellenic world? The decisive shift in focus and taste from Rome to Greece in the eighteenth century 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 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 account 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 eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. At the heart of the book is, in the words of Richard Stoneman, "a poets vision of Greece."

About Us: The Nile New Zealand is your one-stop location for book