Asianic Elements in Greek Civilisation can appear in some ways to be a frenetic work. It represents the compilation of significant scholarly research and rich personal experience of Asia Minor in a series of twenty-one lectures that can at times feel disjointed. The richness of the work is its ability to focus on both cultural and historical aspects of a region with rich traditions. The actual subject of the lectures is the region Ramsay repeatedly refers to as Anatolia, by which he means the greater land area of present day Turkey, as well as the islands of Crete and Cyprus.