Romance of ruins: the search for ancient Ionia, 1764

Contents

Directors' foreword -- 'This wonderful day': in search of ancient Ionia / Ian Jenkins -- 'The eye of Asia': portrait of Smyrna as a world city / Philip Mansel -- Quorum Pars magna fui: the role of William Pars / Kim Sloan -- The Society of Dilettanti and the study of Greek antiquity / Jason M. Kelly -- Etiam periere ruinae: Chandler, the troad and Troy / J. Lesley Fitton -- Voyaging without romanticism: travels with Richard Chandler and the trials and tribulations of the Ionian expedition -- Hunting inscriptions on the Ionian mission: Richard Chandler and the development of Greek epigraphy / Robert K. Pitt -- 'A new species of human beings': enlightened encounters with the Anatolian 'other' in the eighteenth century / Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir -- Catalogue. Drawings by William Pars associated with the Ionian mission in the collection of the British Museum / Celeste Farge.