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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE ROMANCE OF THE CAVERN ON PARNASSUS. The whole region around the huge and wild range of mountains called Parnassus by the ancient Greeks, and Liakoura by the moderns, is wonderful and romantic, whether seen from the terrace of Delphi, from the valley of Amphissa (which Dr. Howe called Salona), from Arachova, famous for its barking dogs and beautiful women, or from Daulis and Velitsa, near which was the robber-cave of Odysseus or Ulysses, the chieftain of this century, who is almost as renowned in modern Greece as his namesake of Ithaca. It was a tract less familiar to Dr. Howe, in his Greek campaigns, than Attica and the Peloponnesus, or Corinth, where he planted his colony, in 1829; but he knew it well, and also the tragedy of its Parnassus cavern, which both he and the Englishman Trelawnyhave related. This is as good a place as any to give Dr. Howe's account of this strange affa1r, which led to Trelawny's departure from Greece, in 1826. The Englishman himself has described it in his memoirs, but the statement of Dr. Howe derives importance from the fact that he was in one of the parties that beset the mountain fastness of Trelawny on Parnassus, and it was from his company that young Whitcombe went forth to joinFenton in the plot which ended so disastrously for both. Dr. Howe says: l Ulysses had left his celebrated cavern on Parnassus, and the object of the Government (against whom he was in rebellion) was to get possession of his mountain retreat. This was most difficult to accomplish. Force could not effect it, starvation could not, for it was well supplied with provisions; and as for fraud, it was not to be expected, for the cavern was held by an Englishman, Trelawny, who had so far ingratiated himself with Ulysses as to obtain the hand of his sister, ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781459068063
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 104
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459068068
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 200 gr


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