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Figure 1: Map of Lemnos and Mount Athos (gallica.bnf.fr)

The Notion of Temporal Travel in Historical hl (1859–1944), echo this thematic exploration
Contexts of temporal regression. In his 1909 publication,
In 1894, the Vicomte Eugène Melchior De En Méditerranée promenades d’Histoire de l’Art,
Vogüé (1848–1910) subtitled the already fourth Diehl characterizes the third peninsula of Hal-
edition of his book, previously published in kidiki as a site where the Greek Mediaeval peri-
1878, Syrie, Palestine, Mont Athos, Voyage aux od bequeathed one of its most extraordinary cre-
pays du passé, which translates to ‘Travel to the ations. He observes: ‘Today, of these vanished
Lands of the Past’. Notably, in Chapter IV, ex- cities, only the memory remains, and in the de-
plicitly dedicated to the Holy Mountain, he ti- serted Halkidiki nothing living would attract
tled it Le Mont Athos (Un voyage au douzième attention anymore, if in the eastern point, for-
1
siècle), literally ‘Mount Athos (A Journey to merly the most uninhabited and the wildest, the
the 12th century)’ (De Vogüé 1894, 253). Other Greek Middle Ages had not left one of its most
2
scholars, including Byzantinologist Charles Die- extraordinary creations (Diehl 1909, 178).
2 ‘Aujourd’hui, de ces villes disparues, seul le souvenir reste,
1 In this paper, all the translations from French to English et dans la Chacidique déserte rien de vivant n’attirerait
are ours, except those mentioned. plus l’attention, si dans la pointe orientale, la plus inhab-