The Glory That Was Greece: a survey of Hellenic culture and civilisation

Part 27

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Thermopylæ, 92, 93, 113, 138

Theron, 130

Thersites, 50

Theseum, the, 167

Theseus, the story of, 15; legendary King of Athens, 96, 97; Peisistratus and, 110, 111; the Panathenæa, 112; “Theseus” statue, 152; the contests of (sculpture), 153; and Peirithous, 180; the bones of, 97, 190

Thesmophoria, 98

Thespis, 174

Thessalians, the, 38

Thessaly, 18, 137, 237

Thetis, 51

Thirty Tyrants, the, 197, 232

“Tholos,” 29

Thorwaldsen, A., 147

Thrace, gold in, 6; and expansion of Athens, 240; coin of, 246

Thracian Chersonese, the, 110

Thrasybulus, 197

“Three Fates, The,” 152

Thucydides and tradition, 100; and Greek tragedy in history, 136;

and Pericles, 143; and the perspective of Greek history, 194; ethical purpose, 228; speeches in, 229

Thurii, 142

Tiberius, Emperor, 218

Timanthes, 79

Timotheus of Miletus, 224

Tiryns, 24, 28

Tissaphernes, 199, 201

Tombs, 188; Mycenæan, 29; objects from, 191

Tombstones, 192

Traeis, battle of the, 127

Tragedy, 173-183; development of, 76

Triphylia, 202

Tripod of Delphi, 68

Triptolemus, 98, 190

Troy, ruins of, 13, 36; Homer and, 41

Truce, Sacred, 77

Turkestan, 243

Turkey, rule of, and war with modern Greece, 262

Tyranny, 256

Tyrants, the, 104, 105

Tyre, 244; destroyed, 247; and Sidon, 129

Tyrtæus, 88

“Unities,” the dramatic, 182

Valhalla, 189

Vaphio gold cups, 30

“Varvakeion” statuette, 148

Vase-painting, decadence, 265

Vases, funeral, 191; metal vases, 225. _See also_ Pottery

Vatican, the, 265

Venetians, the, 262

Venus, 213; Medici Venus, 214; Venus of Milo, 251

Vergil, 261

Victory, Parthenon pediment, 152; at Olympia, 160; the Wingless Victory, 164; of Brescia, 252; of Samothrace, 252

Virtue, 257

Vitruvius on the orders of architecture, 227

Waldstein, Prof., on the Parthenon figures, 152

War and democracy, 195

War of Independence, 262

Warfare among the Greeks, 203

Wedgwood art, 263

Whitelaw’s, Mr., translation of Sophocles, 178

Winckelmann, 265

Wolf-god, 99

Women in Homer, 58; and nudity, 82; and gymnastics, 82; Spartan women, 90

Wordsworth’s “Ode on Immortality” and the Platonic theory, 234

Writing, earliest European, 20

Xanthippus, 141

Xanthus, Harpy Tomb, 188, 123

Xenophanes of Colophon, 128

Xenophon and the Persian war, 201; the Catabasis, 202; retires to Sparta, 202; his works, 203; and the battle of Leuctra, 206; as writer, 210; favours Sparta, 228; and Socrates, 231

Xerxes, 72, 116, 136, 139

Zaleucus of Locri, 73, 128

Zeno, 167, 257

Zeus, birthplace of, 15; heaven of, 39; in Homer, 50; and minor deities, 66; athletic honours to, 76; in the Parthenon pediment, 151; the “Dresden Zeus,” 148; gold statue of, at Olympia, 109; by Pheidias, 148, 149; temple of, 111 168, 261; Zeus Ammon, 251

Zeuxis, 191, 213, 223

Zoology, Aristotle and, 254

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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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