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Bibliography

[The following list of books will serve two purposes, as a guide to the reader who wishes to inquire further on any special point, and as an acknowledgment of some of the obligations of the writer. Only works in English are here included.]

General Histories of Greece

Bury, Professor J. B. A History of Greece. Macmillan.

The most up-to-date “student’s history”; copiously illustrated; a storehouse of facts in narrow compass.

Grote, G. History of Greece. From the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander. 10 vols. Murray.

Holm, Adolf. The History of Greece from its Commencement to the Close of the Independence of the Greek Nation. Translated by F. Clarke. 4 vols. Macmillan.

Short chapters with elaborate notes, written from a liberal and sympathetic point of view.

Special Works on the Early Periods

Burrows, Professor R. M. The Discoveries in Crete and their Bearing on the History of Ancient Civilisation. Murray.

Evans, Sir Arthur. Principal work of, is to be found in the Annuals of the British School at Athens. Macmillan.

Grundy, Dr. G. B. The Great Persian War and its Preliminaries. A Study of the Evidence, Literary and Topographical. Murray.

Lang, Andrew. Homer and his Age. Longmans.

Mosso, Angelo. The Palaces of Crete and their Builders. Fisher Unwin.

Murray, Professor Gilbert. The Rise of the Greek Epic. Clarendon Press.

Ridgeway, Professor W. The Early Age of Greece. 2 vols. Cambridge University Press.

—— Minos the Destroyer rather than the Creator of the so-called Minoan Culture of Cnossos. (A lecture delivered before the British Academy, May 26, 1909.)

Politics

Barker, E. The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle. Methuen.

Fowler, W. Warde. The City State of the Greeks and Romans. Macmillan.

Greenidge, A. H. J. A Handbook of Greek Constitutional History. Macmillan.

Whibley, L. Greek Oligarchies: their Organisation and Character. Methuen.

—— Political Parties in Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Prince Consort Dissertation. 1888. Cambridge University Press.

Mythology and Religion

Farnell, L. R. The Cults of the Greek States. 5 vols. Clarendon Press.

Frazer, J. G. Adonis, Attis, Osiris. Macmillan.

Harrison, Jane E., and Verrall, M. de G. Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens. 1890.

Lawson, J. C. Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion. Cambridge University Press.

Reinach, Salomon. Orpheus. A General History of Religions. Heinemann.

Sculpture and Art

Gardner, Professor E. A. A Handbook of Greek Sculpture. New Edition, with Appendix. In two Parts; Appendix separately. Macmillan.

Jones, H. Stuart. Select Passages from Ancient Writers, Illustrative of the History of Greek Sculpture. Macmillan.

Murray, A. S. A Handbook of Greek Archæology. Murray.

Perrot and Chipiez. History of Art in Primitive Greece. 2 vols. Chapman and Hall.

Waldstein, Charles. Essays on the Art of Pheidias. Cambridge University Press.

Walters, H. B. Greek Art. Methuen.

—— The Art of the Greeks. Methuen.

Coinage

Head, B. V. Historia Numorum. A Manual of Greek Numismatics. Clarendon Press.

Hill, G. F. Greek and Roman Coins. Macmillan.

Bronzes

Murray, A. S. Greek Bronzes. Seeley.

British Museum Catalogue.

Vases

British Museum Catalogues: Greek and Etruscan, White Athenian Vases.

Literature

Jebb, Sir Richard. A Primer of Greek Literature. Macmillan.

Jevons, F. B. A History of Greek Literature from the Earliest Period to the Death of Demosthenes. Griffin.

Topography, Social Life, &c.

Baedeker’s Greece. Fisher Unwin.

Becker, W. A. Charicles: or, Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks. Translated by the Rev. F. Metcalfe. Longmans.

Frazer, J. G. Pausanias’ Description of Greece. 6 vols. Macmillan.

Freeman, K. J. Schools of Hellas. Macmillan.

Gardiner, E. Norman. Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals. Macmillan.

Footnotes

1 This and similar technical terms are explained in the Glossary at the end of the book.

2 Plate I, Figs. 1 and 2.

3 Plates 2 and 3.

4 Plate 4.

5 Plate 5, Fig. 2.

6 Plate 6.

7 Plate 7.

8 Plate 8.

9 Plate 9.

10 Plate 10.

11 Plate 5, Fig. 1.

12 Plate 11.

13 Plate 12.

14 Plate 12.

15 Plate 13.

16 Plate 14.

17 Plate 15.

18 Plate 16.

19 Plate 17.

20 Plate 18.

21 See Vase Plate, Fig. 3 (a Panathenaic Amphora).

22 Plate 19, Fig. 1.

23 Plate 19, Fig. 2.

24 Plate 20, Fig. 1.

25 Plate 20, Fig. 2.

26 Plate 21.

27 Plate 22.

28 Plate 23.

29 Plate 24.

30 Plate 25.

31 Plate 26.

32 Plate 27, and Vase-Plate, Fig. 1.

33 Plate 28.

34 Plates 24 and 76, and Vase-Plate, Fig. 3.

35 Plate 29, Fig. 1.

36 Plate 29, Fig. 2.

37 Plate 30, Fig. 2.

38 Plate 30, Fig. 1.

39 Plate 31.

40 Plate 32.

41 Plate 33.

42 Plate 34, Fig. 1.

43 Plate 34, Fig. 2.

44 Plate 35.

45 Plate 36.

46 Plate 37.

47 Plate 38.

48 Plate 39.

49 Plate 40.

50 Plate 41.

51 Plate 42.

52 Plate 43, Fig. 1.

53 Plate 44.

54 Plate 45.

55 Plate 46.

56 Plate 47, Fig. 1.

57 Plate 38.

58 Plate 25.

59 Plates 31 and 32.

60 Plate 59.

61 Plate 47, Fig. 2.

62 Plate 48.

63 Plate 43, Fig. 2.

64 Plate 49, Fig. 1.

65 Plate 49, Fig. 2

66 Plate 50.

67 Plate 51.

68 Plate 52.

69 Plate 53.

70 Plate 54.

71 Plate 55.

72 Plate 56, Fig. 1.

73 Plate 56, Fig. 2; and Vase Plate, Fig. 2.

74 Plate 57; and Vase Plate, Fig. 4.

75 Plate 58.

76 Plate 59.

77 Plate 60, Fig. 1.

78 Plate 60, Fig. 2.

79 Plate 61, Fig. 2.

80 Plate 62.

81 Plate 63, Fig. 1.

82 Plate 63, Fig. 2.

83 Plate 64, Fig. 1.

84 Plates 65 and 66.

85 Plate 67.

86 Plate 61, Fig. 1.

87 Plate 68.

88 Plate 20, Fig. 2.

89 Plate 51.

90 My other five would be the Hermes of Praxiteles, the Aphrodite of Melos, the “Theseus” of the Parthenon, the Colleoni of Verrocchio, and Rodin’s St. Jean-Baptiste.

91 Plate 69.

92 Plate 70.

93 Plate 71.

94 See plate facing p. 266.

95 Plate 72.

96 Plate 73, Fig. 1.

97 Plate 64, Fig. 2.

98 Plate 74.

99 Plate 73, Fig. 2.

100 Plate 75.

101 See p. 112.

102 See Plate 76 and Vase Plate, Fig. 3.

103 Plates 77 and 78.

104 Plate 79.

105 Plate 80.

106 Plate 81.

107 Plate 82.

108 Plate 83.

109 Plate 84.

110 Plate 85.

111 Plate 86.

112 Plate 87 and Frontispiece.

113 Plate 88.

114 Plate 89.

115 Plate 90.

116 Plate 91.

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