Splendours of Ancient Greece

There are various different ways of travelling rather than actually physically visiting places: they may not be entirely adequate substitutes, but they do have their own advantages. In our day that comment can apply to videos, interactive CD‐ROMs and the rest, as well as to the more traditional means of the book; the book itself can concentrate on words, as in innumerable classics of travel, or on pictures, or on both. The pictures themselves can be artists’ interpretations, or photographs, with varying degrees of success. One advantage of the travel substitute is the ability to block out extraneous detail and...