A Ride Across the Peloponnese: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Ride Across the Peloponnese, credited to George Macmillan, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Ride Across the Peloponnese by George Macmillan. Read in English by Rob Marland In the spring of 1877, a young Oscar Wilde visited Greece with his classics professor, J. P. Mahaffy, and two friends. One of these friends, George Macmillan, wrote a brief account of the party's ride across the Peloponnese. The account, without mentioning Wilde by name, records the travelers' first impressions of the newly excavated sites of ancient Olympia, Argos, and Mycenae. It also includes colorful descriptions of the Arcadian mountains and flora, and of Greek customs and dress. This recording was made in the spring of 2019 at the sites visited by Wilde and Macmillan. Listen out for the crash of a falling tree at Olympia, the chorus of frogs at Tegea, and the lapping waves at Nafplio Harbor. - Summary by Rob Marland

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Ride Across the Peloponnese
• Author credits: George Macmillan
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 1:21:56

Catalogue topics

• oscar wilde
• greece
• olympia
• bassae
• mycenae
• argos
• megalopolis
• tiryns

Track guide

1. 01 - I. The Approach to Greece — 12:04
2. 02 - II. Olympia — 14:08
3. 03 - III. Bassae — 15:41
4. 04 - IV. Megalopolis, Tripolitza, and Tegea — 20:45
5. 05 - V. Argos and Mycenae — 10:42
6. 06 - VI. Tiryns and Nauplia — 8:36

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