Athens and Attica

By: Marianne Mehling First published in 1836, a revised edition with additional material by Christopher Wordsworth a nephew of William the poet. In 1832 he took a gap-year, after his studies in ancient Greek and Latin classics, to travel back in time over two thousand years to Pericles’ Athens. The account of his tour, Athens and Attica (1836), is still the perfect scholarly companion to the history, topography, and myths of an area compact in dimension yet vast in terms of its contribution to Western civilization. To order e-mail David Davidson at