Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Antiquities of Ionia, Vol. 4
About the middle of the last century the Society of Dilettanti, which had been founded in 1734, determined to send a mission to explore the ancient sites and remains of archi tecture and sculpture in Greece and Asia Minor. This mission, which consisted of Messrs. Chandler, Revett, and Pars, left England in 1764, and after visiting Smyrna and other places on the west coast of Asia Minor, proceeded to Athens. The results of this first mission were recorded in T/ie Antiquities of Ionia, Part I. Published in 1769, and Part II. In 1797. In 1812 the Society sent a second Mission to Greece and Asia Minor under the direction of Sir William Gell, who was accompanied by the architects John Peter Candy and Francis Bedford. The labours of this second Mission enabled the Society to publish, in 1817, a volume on T/le Antiquities o/'attica, and in 1840 a third part of Tfie Antiquities of Ionia. They also republished, in 1821, Part I. Of the same work, with many additions and corrections. In 1851 the Society published Mr. Penrose's work on T/ie Principles of Athenian Architecture, in which he has recorded his investigations as to the optical refinements which the Parthenon and certain other buildings at Athens possessed.
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