Greek Lands and Letters

Cicero, at one time studying Greek oratory in Rhodes, at another speaking Greek as the language best adapted to a Sicilian audience, suggests with sufficient definiteness the ea...

“Returning from Asia Minor and voyaging from Ægina toward Megara I began to look on the places round about me. Behind me was Ægina; before me Megara; on the right Piræus; on the...

“Here, stranger, seek no tyrant. This our state is ruled Not of one man. ’Tis free. The people year by year As kings succeed each other, never yield they most To Wealth, but eve...

To speak of the Acropolis of Athens with due Hellenic restraint is difficult for any one who has lived long under its habitual sway. At the first visit three sets of impressions...

“Know that our city has the greatest name amongst all men because she never yields to her misfortunes. And even should we ever be compelled to yield a little—for it is nature’s...

Travellers fresh from Italy perceive an Oriental picturesqueness in modern Athens, but the immediate impression of its Occidental character gained by those who come from Egypt o...

Modern Athens climbs up around the lower slopes of Mount Lycabettus, which rises on the east like an index finger above the Attic plain. Although this peak is less than one thou...

“Go thou to Attica, Fail not to see those great nights of Demeter, Mystical, holy. There thou shalt win thee a mind that is care-free Even while living, And when thou joinest th...

“Not far off from the Graces’ favour falls this island’s lot. She keepeth civic faith and hath attained to glory in the valour of the sons of Æacus. Flawless is her fame from th...

“Cities which were great aforetime now as a rule are mean, and those formerly were small which in my day have become great. Therefore, since I know that human prosperity never r...

If leisure is the nurse of sympathetic understanding, “three radiant courses of the sun” are none too many to give to Delphi. The inner meaning of this centre of Greece needs no...

“Ye triple pathways, shrouded crypt of woodland vale, Coppice, and narrowing pass where three roads meet! O ye Who drank my father’s blood—my own—from these my hands, Do ye, per...

“O Thebè blest, wherein delighteth most thy heart? in which of all the noble deeds wrought in thy land in days gone by? Gone by, I say, for now the Grace of olden time is fallen...

“Helicon maidens, the Muses! Their name be my prelude in singing! They in their keeping have Helicon’s mountain, majestical, sacred. There they go threading the dances by violet...

Thermopylæ lies due north from Delphi, less than twenty-five miles distant in an air line, but between them lie “many o’ershadowing mountains,” as Achilles might say, or, to be...

“Few for our eyes are the homes of the heroes, Lowly these few, they scarce lift from the plain; So once I marked thee, O luckless Mycenæ, Then, as I passed thee, a desert’s dom...

Homer lets Hera, wrangling with Zeus, in regard to Troy, exclaim: “Verily three are the dearest to me among cities: wide-wayed Mycenæ and Sparta and Argos.” The Heræum, the anci...

Of the temples that once adorned the mainland and the islands of Greece only a brave few now rear columns from the ground. Among these the Temple of Apollo at Bassæ constrains t...

“What time the mid-month moon in golden car flamed back her light and lit the eye of Evening full, pure judgment of Great Games did Heracles ordain and fifth year’s festival bes...

“A land where fruit trees blossom, myriad fountains flow And flocks and herds are grazing in the meadows fair. Nor wintry are the winds of winter, nor too near The flaming Sun c...

In the Spartans’ theory of life adventures abroad or the welcome of strangers into their own territory had no place. Perhaps nothing more sharply differentiated them from the At...

p. 23 and _passim_. Plato, _Timæus_, 22 B. =3= Quotation from Curtius, _Greek History_, I, p. 32. =5= Hatzidakis, _Neugriechische Grammatik_, p. 4. =9= Quotation from Tozer, _Ge...

763; 433. =39= Lucian, _When My Ship Comes In_ (_Navigium_), 5. =43= Æschylus, _Suppliants_, 715. =44= Isocrates, _Areopagiticus_, 66. =45= Plato, _Symposium_, 173 B. Lucian, _N...

Greece_, p. 70. =59= Isocrates, _Panegyricus_, 23, 24. =62= Ælian, _apud Stob. Serm._, XXIV, 53. For Solon’s apothegm cf. Herodotus, I, 32; Æschylus, _Agamemnon_, 928. =63= “The...

Revolution_ (1828), p. 340. =76= Plato, _Phædrus_, 279 B. =78= Cf. Gardner, _Ancient Athens_, p. 256. =80= Bayard Taylor, _Travels in Greece and Russia_ (1859), p. 39. =81= Home...

Euripides, _Medea_, 826. Demosthenes, _Olynthiac_, III, 25, 29. =103= Second paragraph, cf. Lucian, _Cock_, 26. =104= Æschylus, _Eumenides_, 328. =105= Æschylus, _Eumenides_, 77...

600. Homer, _Odyssey_, XV, 459. =128= Aristophanes, _Frogs_, 171. =129= Homer, _Iliad_, XI, 558. =130= Euripides, _Alcestis_, 252, 433, 575. Homer, _Odyssey_, XIII, 221. =131= _...

_Frogs_, 1056. Plato, _Critias_, 112. =145= Theophrastus, _De Signis Tempestatum_, I, 20, 24. Aristophanes, _Clouds_, 299-313; and see chap, i, p. 25. =146-147= Sophocles, _Œdip...

_Helena_, 1301. =176= Strabo, X, 3, 9. =178= Sophocles, _Œdipus Coloneus_, 1146. Euripides, _Ion_, 1078. Herodotus, VIII, 65. =179= Aristophanes, _Frogs_, 341. =180= Aristotle,...

Pericles_, 156. =187= Lucian, _Navigium_, 15. Thucydides, VI, 32. =189= Pindar, _Nem._, VII, 78. Bacchylides, _Epinician Odes_, 13. =190= Pindar, _Isth._, IV, 23; VII, 16; IV, 4...

=194= Homer, _Iliad_, IX, 529. Bacchylides, _Epinician Odes_, 5. Euripides, _Meleager_ (not extant). Lucian, _Life’s-end of Peregrinus_, 30. =196= Æschylus, _Choëphoroi_, 602. =...

VIII, 61. =219= Homer, _Odyssey_, VIII, 79. Æschylus, _Prometheus_, 679. Sophocles, _Œdipus Tyr._, 70; _Œdipus Col._, 84. =220= Homer, _Odyssey_, IV, 1. Æschylus, _Persians_, 56...

Aristophanes, _Thesmophoriazusæ_, 1180. =252= Herodotus, VIII, 37. =259= Sophocles, _Œdipus Tyr._, 800. =260= Æschylus, _Agamemnon_, 1111. Homer, _Odyssey_, XIX, 518. =261= Home...

Malice of Herodotus_. Homer, _Iliad_, =IV=, 384; II, 495. _Homeric Hymns_ to Apollo and Hermes. =268= Æschylus, _Seven Against Thebes_, 296. Sophocles, _Antigone_, 1124. Euripid...

A. =297= Pindar, _Pyth._, I, 78. Æschylus, _Persians_, 484. Herodotus, IX, 16. =298= Herodotus, IX, 25. =299= Pindar, _Pyth._, I, 77. Æschylus, _Persians_, 813. Simonides, _Gree...

sometimes attributed to Antipater of Thessalonica. =330= Herodotus, I, 1. =331= Lucian, _Charon_, 23. =332= Pausanias, II, 15, with Frazer’s notes. =333= Pindar, _Nemean_, X, 28...

612. =360= Homer, _Iliad_, II, 607. =361= Polybius, XXIV, 15. =365= _Greek Anthology_, App. Plan., 188. =366= Herodotus, VIII, 26. =371= _Greek Anthology_, Pal., IX, 314; App. P...

_Marine Dialog._, 3. Strabo, VI, cap. 2, 4. =391= Antigonus Carystus, _Historia Mirab._, 140 (155). =392= Xenophon, _Anabasis_, IV, viii, 26. =397= _Odyssey_, V, 79; Lucian, _Ju...

Sophocles, _Ajax_, 8. Homer, _Odyssey_, IV, 603. Euripides, _Helen_, 348; _Iphigeneia in Tauris_, 132. =433-434= Homer, _Odyssey_, IV. Herodotus, VI, 61. =436= Æschylus, _Agamem...