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Article: Dear George ... letter from Magna Graecia. (the ancient city of Crotone, Italy, first celebrated in the 19th century George Gissing novel 'By the Ionian Sea')(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 6, 1997
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ONE hundred years ago this month, in the course of the travels he wrote about in "By the Ionian Sea", George Gissing, a famous Victorian novelist, arrived in Crotone. Then, as now, Charles V's imposing castle dominated this drab Calabrian city, which stands on the site of the town Kroton, founded by the Achaeans in the eighth century BC. But Gissing's main reason for going there was to visit Capo Colonna, a promontory six miles (10km) down the Ionian coast where he was hoping to see the single remaining Doric column of the 48-column temple built by the Greek settlers in honour of Hera Lacinia.
Poor Gissing, who had set out on his Italian journey in the company of ...
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