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Excerpt from Religion and Art in Ancient Greece Grz'echz'sche Ge'tterideale. In the present volume only a few examples are mentioned as characteristic of the various periods. It may thus, I trust, serve as an introduction to a more complete study of the subject, and may, at the same time, offer to those who have not the leisure or inclination for such further study, at least a summary of what we may learn from Greece as to the relations of re...

Excerpt from Wrecks Around Nantucket: Since the Settlement of the Island, and the Incidents Connected Therewith, Embracing Over Seven Hundred VesselsTo cover the cost of paper alone for the proposed edition required an assured sale of 100 copies, but a preliminary canvass by the com piler failed to secure the requisite guarantee. Nevertheless he as sumed the risk and as that represented practically the whole out lay (the type-setting, press wo...

Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeThe most valuable part of Col. Leake's collection consisted of black-figured amphorae and hydriae, mostly Attic, and of Attic cylices, both black-figured and red-figured, including those signed by Hischylus and Saconides and by Cachrylion. This part of the collection was evidently bought in Italy, and the provenance in most cases is given as Vulci. To these must be...

Excerpt from A Handbook of Greek Sculpture Although there are several histories of Greek sculpture, the need of a handbook on a smaller scale and of a somewhat different scope is, I believe, generally felt. What is wanted is a general outline of our present knowledge of Greek sculpture, distinguishing as clearly as possible the different schools and periods, and giving typical instances to show the development of each. Accordingly, I have not...

Excerpt from Ancient Athens The author Of a book on Ancient Athens must needs owe much to his predecessors, and these are so many that, in an attempt to make more particular acknow ledgment, there is no little danger Of omission. In stating a few Of the sources from which I am conscious Of having borrowed most, I have no wish to slight the more numerous authorities to which others, and possibly I myself, owe as great or perhaps a greater debt...

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Excerpt from A Handbook of Greek Sculpture Were the writer of such a book as this to cite all the authorities who have contributed, directly or indirectly, to the work he has produced, his preface and notes would be a mere patchwork of references and quotations. I have endeavoured as far as possible to give my own impressions directly, as derived both from literary authorities and from the monuments themselves, and have tried as a general rul...

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