Itinerary of the Morea Being a Description of the Routes of that Peninsula Gell

Itinerary of the MoreaBeing a Description of the Routes of that Peninsula\nAuthor(s): William Gell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108050814, 978-1108050814\nSynopsis\nClassical topographer Sir William Gell [tel] first came to public attention with his Topography of Troy [tel]. Based on his travels around Bunarbashi, near to where Schliemann would subsequently excavate, the work became a standard treatise. Byron even wrote: 'Of Dardan tours let dilettanti tell, / I leave topography to classic Gell.' A noted conversationalist and intellectual intermediary, Gell became a Fellow of the Royal Society and, indeed, a Member of the Society of Dilettanti. He also served, in 1803, on a diplomatic mission to the Ionian Islands; his subsequent journey, with the archaeologist Edward Dodwell, through the Peloponnese - then known as the Morea - became the subject of several later books, including Narrative.