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In the Footsteps of the Gods: Travelers to Greece and the Quest for the Hellenic Ideal (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)
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. Read more