The Cyclades, or Life Among the Insular Greeks: First Published in 1885, a revised edition with additional material (3rdguide S)

J Theodore Bent,Gerald Brisch

ISBN 10: 0953992314 / ISBN 13: 9780953992317

Edité par 3rdguides 2002-06-30, 2002

N° de réf. du vendeur 6666-GRD-9780953992317

Synopsis :

James Theodore Bent (1852-1897) was an Oxford-educated archaeologist, historian and explorer who dedicated his short life to researches in the Levant and Africa. In the winters of 1882-84 he and his wife, Mabel Hall-Dare, made extended tours of the Cycladic islands and in 1885 Bent published what has become a classic account of their wanderings and discoveries in what is now one of the best-loved regions of Greece. His island-by-island journals are a fascinating insight into Greek community living at the turn of the 19th century, and the work established Bent as a traveller of note. As might be expected, most of the major sites and sights are detailed, as well as references to customs and costumes, hospitality and hardship, history, folklore and myth. No account in English, then or since, has come close in terms of scope and achievement. (On a scholarly level, Bent was the first English archaeologist to undertake serious excavation work in the region and his findings on the small island of Antiparos (included here) are still referred to in current bibliographies.) As far as the publishers are aware, no English language edition of Bent's Cyclades is currently easily available. This new edition of Bent's 1885 work is accompanied by a newly commissioned biographical introduction and a series of notes including route-planner, and historical and archaeological summaries.

Présentation de l'éditeur: The Islands of the JE gea-n Sea offer plenty of scope for the study of Hellenic archaeology, but they arc more particularly rich in the preservation of manners and customs which have survived the lapse of years ;and the result of a special study of both these points, made during two winters passed by my wife and myself amongst the islanders in their distant hamlets, and in their towns by the sea-coast, I here place before the public. The causes which have conduced to making the Cyclades a favourable field for the study of Hellenic folklore are these :F irst, the islands were never, like the mainland, subject to the incursions of barbarous tribes ;this fact is especially noticeable in the island of A ndros, the most northern and the most accessible of the Cycladic group from the mainland by way of Eubcea. The northern portion of this island is exclusively Albanian in speech, manners, and customs. The Greeks in the south are highly influenced by this intermixture, which has in a measure destroyed the identity of the continental Greeks ;but here the Albanian wave has ended, there is not a trace of it in any other of the Cyclades.
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Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Cyclades, or Life Among the Insular ...
Éditeur : 3rdguides 2002-06-30
Date d'édition : 2002
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : New