The Fortnightly Volume 39 download
The Fortnightly Volume 39 download
The Fortnightly Volume 39 by Books Group
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Author: Books Group
Number of Pages: 408 pages
Published Date: 09 Feb 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9781235854538
File size: 40 Mb
Download Link: The Fortnightly Volume 39
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1883 Excerpt: ... A PLEA FOR A BRITISH INSTITUTE AT ATHENS. It has long been desired by friends of scholarship and archusologv in this country that a British School of Classical Studies should be established at Athens, similar to the Institutes which France and Germany have for many years possessed there. In 1878 I endeavoured to draw attention to this subject, and to indicate some of the conditions for a successful attainment of the object. Since then much has occurred which is strongly favourable to the project; indeed, it would hardly be too much to say that its execution has become only a question of time. The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, founded in 1880, has grown with a rapidity, and has worked with an energy, which strikingly attests the vitality in Great Britain of those interests which such a school would serve in the Levant. It would be difficult to adduce a better argument for the establishment of such a school than by simply reciting the chief heads of endeavour which the Hellenic Society of London has proposed to itself, with cordial support from a large and still increasing body of members. "To advance the study of Greek language, literature, and art, and to illustrate the history of the Greek race in the ancient, Byzantine, and Neo-Hellenic periods, by the publication of memoirs and unedited documents or monuments." "To collect drawings, fac-similes, transcripts, plans, and photographs of Greek inscriptions, MSS., works of art, ancient sites and remains; and, with this view, to invite travellers to communicate to the society notes or sketches of archaeological and topographical interest." "To organize means by which members of the society may have increased facilities for visiting ancient sites and pursuing archaeological researches in countr...
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The Fortnightly Volume 39 by Books Group
Author: Books Group
Number of Pages: 408 pages
Published Date: 09 Feb 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9781235854538
File size: 40 Mb
Download Link: The Fortnightly Volume 39
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1883 Excerpt: ... A PLEA FOR A BRITISH INSTITUTE AT ATHENS. It has long been desired by friends of scholarship and archusologv in this country that a British School of Classical Studies should be established at Athens, similar to the Institutes which France and Germany have for many years possessed there. In 1878 I endeavoured to draw attention to this subject, and to indicate some of the conditions for a successful attainment of the object. Since then much has occurred which is strongly favourable to the project; indeed, it would hardly be too much to say that its execution has become only a question of time. The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, founded in 1880, has grown with a rapidity, and has worked with an energy, which strikingly attests the vitality in Great Britain of those interests which such a school would serve in the Levant. It would be difficult to adduce a better argument for the establishment of such a school than by simply reciting the chief heads of endeavour which the Hellenic Society of London has proposed to itself, with cordial support from a large and still increasing body of members. "To advance the study of Greek language, literature, and art, and to illustrate the history of the Greek race in the ancient, Byzantine, and Neo-Hellenic periods, by the publication of memoirs and unedited documents or monuments." "To collect drawings, fac-similes, transcripts, plans, and photographs of Greek inscriptions, MSS., works of art, ancient sites and remains; and, with this view, to invite travellers to communicate to the society notes or sketches of archaeological and topographical interest." "To organize means by which members of the society may have increased facilities for visiting ancient sites and pursuing archaeological researches in countr...
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