The Glory That Was Greece: a survey of Hellenic culture and civilisation
Part 27
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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