In the footsteps of Orpheus; the story of the finding and identification of the lost entrance to Hades, the Oracle of the Dead, the River Styx, and the infernal regions of the Greeks
In the footsteps of Orpheus; the story of the finding and identification of the lost entrance to Hades, the Oracle of the Dead, the River Styx, and the infernal regions of the Greeks
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8vo. Terra cotta paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 208pp. Illustrations, maps, plans. Near fine/very good. Jacket lightly rubbed and edgeworn, with several tiny chips at corners. Attractive and tight first edition of this account of doing for Virgil's "Aeneid" for Heinrich Schliemann did for Homer's Troy--locating the actual physical site, a crater west of Naples--that served as the poet's inspiration.