This book examines the letters, diaries, and published accounts of English and Scottish travelers to Greece in the seventeenth century, a time of growing interest in ancient texts and the Ottoman Empire.
Efterpi Mitsi is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
1. Introduction.- 2. Angell in Oxford: The Travails of a Greek Monk in Seventeenth-Century England.- 3. The "fruit of travell": Fynes Moryson and Thomas Dallam in the Greek Islands.- 4. "A revelation of time": Translating Greece in George Sandys' Relation of a Journey.- 5. "Fensed with experience and garnished with truth": Experience and Invention in William Lithgow's Greek Journey.- 6. The Rediscovery of Athens in George Wheler's Journey into Greece.