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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Longlisted for the Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League"
"Shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize, London Hellenic Society"
"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
"[An] enchanting love letter, a sonorous ode to nature. . . .This thorough, meticulous, and excellently written book informs the reader on basically every aspect of Greek and Roman imagination and experience of mountains."
---Andrej Petrovic, Greece and Rome"One need look no further than König’s
The Folds of Olympus for what is surely the most readable, comprehensive account of mountains in ancient Greek and Roman culture. Based on firsthand experience, wide-ranging research, and profound insights, the book takes readers on a journey up slopes, atop summits, and across vistas of mountain geographies around the Mediterranean and beyond." * Choice *
"[W]onderfully rich and stimulating."
---John Taylor, Classics for All"
The Folds of Olympus shows König’s mastery of material vast enough to be the subjects and substance of countless seminars in Classical studies. This grasp of ancient history and culture is matched by König’s knowledge and love of the physical side of his subject."
---Gerald Lalonde, The Past
