The Splendour of Greece

Robert Hale Ltd, 1962 Reprint

In this narrative, the author of The Gold of Troy has woven together the art, history and mythology of ancient Greece with the adroitness of an expert guide and the enthusiasm of a devotee. Through his informed and vivacious evocation of the past, the reader sees today's crumbling temples, the great desolate plains or islands that were great cities, and the fragmentary statues which remain glowing as with their antique splendour. Payne leads a grand tour of Greece and the Greek islands: Mycanae, Phaestos, Olympia, Delos, Aegina, Athens, Sounion, Daphni, Eleusis, Corinth, Patmos and Rhodes...