Among the numerous editions of Greek authors necessarily consulted we are under special obligations to Professor Gildersleeve’s “Pindar, the Olympian and Pythian Odes,” and to Professor Smyth’s “Melic Poets.” Certain quotations in the text, not provided for in the footnotes, are acknowledged in the Appendix, in which are also given, for the sake of comparison, exact references to the Greek.

Our personal thanks are due to Professor J. Irving Manatt, of Brown University, for valuable suggestions and criticism of several chapters, and to Professor Walter G. Everett for his discussion of the section on Greek philosophy. We are also especially indebted to Professor Herbert Richard Cross of Washington University, St. Louis, for placing at our disposal his water-color sketch of the Propylæa, from which the frontispiece is taken, and to Professors C. B. Gulick and G. H. Chase of Harvard University for assistance in obtaining the impression of the coin upon the cover of this book.

F. G. A.

A. C. E. A.

Providence, October, 1909.

CONTENTS

I.The Widespread Land of Hellas[1]
II.Piræus, the Harbour Town[32]
III.Athens: From Solon to Salamis[57]
IV.The Acropolis of Athens[74]
V.Athens: From Salamis to Menander[91]
VI.Old Greece in New Athens[126]
VII.Attica[144]
VIII.Eleusis[171]
IX.Ægina[186]
X.Megara and Corinth: The Gulf of Corinth[192]
XI.Delphi[218]
XII.From Delphi to Thebes[250]
XIII.Thebes and Bœotia[266]
XIV.Bœotia, continued[296]
XV.Thermopylæ[316]
XVI.Argolis[323]
XVII.Arcadia[358]
XVIII.Olympia[388]
XIX.Messenia[425]
XX.Sparta[431]
Appendix[453]
Index[463]

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Propylæa[Frontispiece]
From within looking toward Salamis
From a painting by H. R. Cross
Map of Greece and the Ægean[1]
Map of Piræus[32]
Renan on the Acropolis[74]
From a French painting
S. Colonnade of the Parthenon[88]
From a photograph by R. A. Rice
Areopagus[104]
Street of the Tombs[114]
Monument of Hegeso
After Polygnotus[134]
The Panathenæa Continued[134]
Map of Attica[144]
Menander[152]
From bust in Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Sunium[162]
Temple of Poseidon. From a photograph by S. C. A.
Olive Trees on the way to Eleusis[178]
From a photograph by E. G. Radeke
Ægina[188]
Temple of Aphæa
Corinth[202]
Temple of Apollo and Acrocorinth
Delphi and the Road to Arachova[250]
Map of Bœotia[266]
A Gallery of the Acropolis of Tiryns[324]
Calauria[356]
Temple of Poseidon. Scene of the death of Demosthenes
Olympia[388]
Kronos Hill. The ruins of the Altis
Taÿgetus[432]