# Rambles and Studies in Greece

Author: Mahaffy, J. P. (John Pentland), 1839-1919

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35298

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Rambles+and+Studies+in+Greece+Mahaffy&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

A voyage to Greece does not at first sight seem a great undertaking. We all go to and fro to Italy as we used to go to France. A trip to Rome, or even to Naples, is now an Easter holiday affair. And is not Greece very close to Italy on the map? What signifies the narrow sea that divides them? This is what a man might say who only considered geography, and did not regard the teaching of history. For the student of history cannot look upon these two peninsulas without being struck with the fact that they are, historically speaking, turned back to back; that while the face of Italy is turned westward, and looks towards France and Spain, and across to us, the face of Greece looks eastward, to...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/rambles-and-studies-in-greece-35298/chapters/14/index.md)