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31 - Early Travelers and the Rediscovery of Athens

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2021

By
Robert K. Pitt
Edited by
Jenifer Neils  and
Dylan K. Rogers
Jenifer Neils
Affiliation:
American School of Classical Studies, Athens
Dylan K. Rogers
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Summary

The rediscovery of Athens by Western travelers from the fifteenth century onwards led to an international fascination with the ruins of the city and their relationship with descriptions in ancient literature. The publications and manuscripts of these journeys preserve crucial documentation for the remains of Athens, its temples, topography, and inscriptions, much of which has been lost over the subsequent centuries.

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travelersantiquariansDilettantitopography
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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens , pp. 437 - 448
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

For Athenian monuments and sources in the Byzantine period, see Kaldellis 2009 and Bouras 2017. For detailed bibliographic information of the publications of the early travelers to Greece, see Paton 1951, Weber 1952 and 1953, Navari 1989, and for a collection of images from these works, Tsigakou 2007. The story of travels to Athens is told by Laborde 1854, and travelers within their intellectual and cultural context are discussed in Tsigakou 1981, Stoneman 2010, and Constantine 2011. Accounts of individual travels and missions include: for Cyriacus of Ancona, Bodnar 1960 and Chatzidakis 2017; for the Dilettanti Society, Kelly 2009; for Stuart and Revett, Weber Soros 2006; for Dodwell, Camp 2013; and for Fauvel, Zambon 2014.

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Additional resources to accompany this chapter can be found at: www.cambridge.org/NeilsRogers

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