Voyage Littéraire de la Grèce
by M. Guys
Voyage Littéraire De La Grèce: Ou, Lettres sur les Grecs, Anciens et Modernes, Avec un Parallèle de Leurs Moeurs is a compilation of letters penned by Pierre-Augustin Guys (1721-1799). Although originally written in French, the book has also been translated to English. It was one of the first writings to show a favorable image of the Greeks; Guys believed they had been scorned so often only because people were not taking the time to study them sufficiently.[1] As a humanist, Guys focused almost entirely on the human activities of the Greek people instead of the antiquity of the landscape around them.[2] He believed that the best way to understand Ancient Greece was to study the Modern Greeks.[3]
Bibliographic Information
Author: M. Guys.
Title: Voyage Littéraire De La Grèce: Ou, Lettres sur les Grecs, Anciens et Modernes, Avec un Parallèle de Leurs Moeurs.
Publication Info: Paris: Veuve Duchesne, 1783.
Edition: 3rd edition, revised, corrected; four volumes.
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Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy
Bound in full calf marble with richly adorned spine. Title page and volume number in red and green morocco. Purchased from Librairie Herodote.
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References
- ↑ Olga Augustinos, French Odysseys: Greece in French Travel Literature from the Renaissance to the Romantic Era (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), 156.
- ↑ Olga Augustinos, French Odysseys, 171.
- ↑ Konstantinos Andriotis, “Early Travellers to Greece and their Modern Counterparts” (paper presented at the Tourist Experiences: Meanings, Motivations, Behaviours, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, April 1-4, 2009).
