There are more and more websites springing up these days with hiking routes in the Greek mountains, and more and more companies offering trekking tours. Most of them have a different focus from the posts on this website, with only very brief discussion of the literary and archaeological heritage.
It’s not possible to list all the sites we have benefitted from, but here is a selection:
- There is some great material on Olympus Mountaineering. It’s packed with suggestions for good walking and climbing routes, with lots of photos.
- There are important English-language guidebooks among others by Tim Salmon and Michael Cullen (Trekking in Greece: The Peloponnese and Pindos Way, along with other excellent Cicerone Press titles), and by George Sfikas (The Mountains of Greece; out of print, but still very useful for mountain-by-mountain guidance, if you can get hold of a copy second-hand).
- Anavasi now has a wonderful range of books about the mountains of Greece, and all the maps you could need, both paper copies and a really good app (Anavasi mapp) with electronic versions. Anavasi mapp is available in both Android and iOS versions.
- The ToposText website is an essential resource for anyone who is interested in identifying places of ancient myth, history and archaeology in the present-day landscape of Greece.
- The Ancient World Mapping Center interactive map is also very helpful in labelling mountains and mountain ranges (and other places too) with their ancient names.
- Alexis Belis’ fantastic PhD thesis (‘Fire on the mountain’) on the archaeology of mountain religion in ancient Greece is publicly available, including a catalogue of mountain sites in Volume II.
- Maria Christodoulou’s booklet The Greek Herbalist’s Guide to the Mountain is a fantastic, accessible introduction to the botanical heritage, covering the plants of thirteen different mountains across Greece.
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