As classic literature is the best interpreter of Greek sculpture, the text draws freely from such original sources as the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Homeric hymns, and Ovid's Metamorphoses.

ESTELLE M. HURLL.
New Bedford, Mass.
January, 1901.

CONTENTS AND LIST OF PICTURES

page
[ PericlesFrom original in British Museum][(frontispiece)]
[Preface][iv]
[Introduction]
[ I. On Some Characteristics of Greek Sculpture][vii]
[ II. On Books of Reference][x]
[ III. Historical Directory of the Marbles reproduced in this Collection][xi]
[I. Bust of Zeus Otricoli][1]
[Picture from Photograph by Fratelli Alinari]
[II. Athena Giustiniana (MInerva Medica)][7]
[Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson]
[III. Horsemen from the Parthenon Frieze][13]
[Picture from Photograph by the London Stereoscopic Co.]
[IV. Bust of Hera (Juno)][19]
[Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson]
[ V. The Apoxyomenos][25]
[Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson]
[ VI. Head of the Apollo Belvedere][31]
[Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson]
[ VII. Demeter (Ceres)][37]
[Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson]
[ VIII. The Faun of Praxiteles][43]
[Picture from Photograph by Fratelli Alinari]
[IX. Sophocles][49]
[Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson]
[X. Ares Seated][55]
[ Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson]
[XI. Head of the Olympian Hermes][61]
[Picture from Photograph by the English Photographic Co., Athens]
[XII. The Discobolus (The Disk-thrower)][67]
[Picture from Photograph loaned by Edward Robinson, from the only negative known to exist]
[XIII. The Aphrodite of Melos (Venus of Milo)][73]
[Picture from Photograph by Neurdein Frères]
[XIV. Orpheus and Eurydice][79]
[Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson]
[XV. Nike (The Winged Victory)][85]
[Picture from Photograph by Neurdein Frères]
[XVI. Pericles ][91]
[ (See Frontispiece)]
[ Pronouncing Vocabulary of Proper Names][95]

Nine of the above illustrations are from
photographs in the collection of the William Hayes Fogg
Art Museum of Harvard University