Dr Iain Gordon Brown FSA FRSE, whose academic career began as a student of ancient history and classical archaeology, was principal curator of manuscripts in the National Library of Scotland, where he is now honorary fellow. He has held the office of curator of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy, and has also been president of the Old Edinburgh Club and a trustee of Edinburgh World Heritage. He is consultant to the Adam Drawings Project at Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Auld Greekie brings together many long-standing interests and builds on a lifetime's study of place and period.
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Preface and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Prologue: 'Gilded by the rays of an Athenian sun'; 2 The Northern Athens in the Eye: 'One splendid whole ... one glorious scene'; 3 The Modern Athens in the Mind: 'The sun that shines on Athens looks bright alike on us'; 4 The Athens of the North in Stone: 'To try their skill in pediment and pillar' 5 'The Athens' from Within: 'Every man imagines himself an architect and a man of taste'; 6 New Athens from Without: 'The soul of the scene, that to which all bow'; 7 Athenian Edinburgh in British Satire: 'The false air of a Modern Athens'; 8 The Anti-Greeks of Modern Athens: 'Unblushing servility and bits of borrowed lustre'; 9 Epilogue: 'Some Greek airs and classic temples on her crags'; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index.