A literary companion to travel in Greece

“Unaffected by time, Byron’s ‘Land of Gods and Godlike men’ continues to cast its sell over the traveller.

In this excellent and wide-ranging collection Richard Stoneman explores the variety of responses evoked through the ages by the subtle stimulus of Greece. As a travelling companion, he leads the reader from the Ionian Islands to Sparta and Attica, onto Northern Greece and the Aegean – conjuring up in this seductive compendium the history, the wildness, heat and beaut which have lured writers from Virgil to Spender to celebrate the Spirit of Greece.”