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In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travelers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal

Posted By: roxul
Date: 22 Apr 2022 13:55:18
In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travelers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal

David Constantine, "In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travelers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal "
English | ISBN: 1848855451 | 2011 | 264 pages | PDF | 25 MB

The classical world has for centuries influenced and inspired the west – its poetry and literature, art, architecture – but what provoked the move from the west’s 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.
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