Travel and Classical Antiquities in C19th Ottoman Greece: Exploring Marginalised Perspectives

This book breaks new ground through its interdisciplinary approach, its insistence on the interweaving of the phenomena of travel and collecting, and its emphasis on marginalised perspectives.

Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews. She researches classical material culture in the Greek world, and its reception in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The body and travel are major themes in her work. She searches out marginalised voices and explores intimate, small-scale encounters with objects. Her publications include Drawing the Greek Vase (co-edited with Caspar Meyer, 2023), The Classical Vase Transformed: Consumption Reproduction and Class in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain (2020) and Truly beyond Wonders: Aelius Aristides and the Cult of Asklepios (2010).