{"product_id":"studies-of-travel-greece-von-edward-a-freeman","title":"STUDIES OF TRAVEL : GREECE","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe traveller who enters the older Hellenic world by way of Corfu, and who \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eleaves that island by an evening steamer, will awake the next morning \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewithin a region which even modern geography and politics allow to be wholly \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHellenic. As long as light serves him, he still keeps along the channel which \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edivides free Corfu from enslaved Epeiros; night cuts him off from the sight of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe mouth of the Ambrakian Gulf, and of the point where modern diplomacy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehas decreed that Greek nationality shall, as far as diplomacy can affect such \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ematters, come to an end. The next morning¿s dawn finds him off the mouth \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the outer Corinthian Gulf. To the east he is shown the position, on one \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eside, of Patras, the old Achaian city which St. Andrew a thousand years back \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eso manfully defended against Slave and Saracen, on the other side, of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMesolongi, whose fame belongs wholly to our own day. We call up the two \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esieges¿the one where the civilian Mavrokordatos, the one hero whom the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFanariot aristocracy gave to the cause of Greece, beat back the Ottoman \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom its mud walls; the other made more famous still by that fearful sally of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe besieged, when, like the men of Ithômê or Eira, they cut their way \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethrough the thickest bayonets of the Egyptian invader. There may be some \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto whom the record of those great deeds may be an unknown tale, but who \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emay yet remember how Mesolongi saw the last and worthiest days of the life \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Byron. Of Patras, of Mesolongi, however, we have hardly so much as a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edistant glimpse; we are told where they are, and that is all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041984732\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eExploring the Historical and Cultural Layers of Greece\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041984732","offer_id":48305991024965,"sku":"9791041984732","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/3690c3d8-8868-4586-97eb-7087f27d3025.jpg?v=1768455623","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/studies-of-travel-greece-von-edward-a-freeman","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}