1796 VOYAGE DU JEUNE ANACHARSIS EN GRECE BY BARTHELEMY

A LONDRES
CHARLES DILLY
1796

Jean Jacques Barthélemy 1716-1795 French writer, numismatist, classical scholar and Jesuit, first published this work The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, in 1788.
In this.imaginary travel journal the hero, a young Scythian descended from the famous philosopher Anacharsis, is supposed to travel to Greece for instruction in his early youth, and after making the tour of her republics, colonies and islands, to return to his native country and write this book in his old age, after the Macedonian hero had overturned the Persian empire. He gives an account of the customs, government and antiquities of the country he is supposed to have visited with  dissertations on the music of the Greeks, on the literature of the Athenians, and on the economy, pursuits, ruling passions, manners and customs of the surrounding states.
    Barthélemy did not imagine this work to be a register of accurate facts; his intention was to give, in an interesting form, some knowledge of Greek civilization.