Greek Lands and Letters

Name: Greek Lands and Letters
Author: Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)

Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)

Greece -- Description and travel; Greek literature -- History and criticism

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                        GREEK LANDS AND LETTERS

[Illustration:

  THE PROPYLÆA
  From within, looking toward Salamis. From a painting by H. R. Cross
]

                            GREEK LANDS AND
                                LETTERS

                                   BY

                       FRANCIS GREENLEAF ALLINSON
        (_Professor of Classical Philology in Brown University_)

                                  AND

                          ANNE C. E. ALLINSON

[Illustration]

                          BOSTON AND NEW YORK
                        HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
                 =The Riverside Press Cambridge=
                                MDCCCCIX

                COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY FRANCIS G. ALLINSON
                        AND ANNE C. E. ALLINSON

                          ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

                       _Published December 1909_

                                   TO
                                A. C. E.
                                  AND
                                S. C. A.

                                PREFACE

The purpose of this book is to interpret Greek lands by literature, and
Greek literature by local associations and the physical environment.
Those who possess an intimate acquaintance with Greek or who have the
good fortune to stay long in Greece will be able to draw upon their own
resources. Many travellers, however, must curtail their visit to a few
weeks or months, and it is hoped that to them this book may prove useful
as a companion in travel, while to a wider range of readers it may prove
suggestive in appraising what is most vital in our “Hellenic heritage.”

To keep within reasonable bounds it has seemed necessary to limit our
survey to those portions of the mainland of Greece and those islands,
immediately adjacent in the Gulf of Ægina, which may be easily visited
during a short stay in Athens as headquarters. But the visitor cannot be
too strongly urged to avail himself of opportunities to visit the
remoter islands and the shores of Asia Minor, which are so beautiful a
part of the Greek world and have played so brilliant a rôle in Greek
history and literature.

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