Produced by James D. Simmons Ancient Manners COMPLETE AND INTEGRAL TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH by Pierre Louÿs _Illustrated by ED. ZIER_ Privately printed for Subscribers only PARIS This Translation of Ancient Manners was executed on the Printing Presses of CHARLES HERISSEY, at Evreux, (France), for Mr. CHARLES CARRINGTON, Paris, Bookseller et Publisher, and is the only complete English version extant. This Edition on Large Paper, is limited to 1000 copies of which this is No . . . . . . . . Contents PREFACE BOOK I I. Chrysis II. On the Quay at Alexandria III. Demetrios IV. The Passer-by V. The Mirror, the Comb, and the Necklace VI. The Virgins VII. Chrysis’s Hair BOOK II I. The Garden of the Goddess II. Melitta III. Love and Death IV. Moonlight V. The Invitation VI. Chrysis’s Rose VII. The Tale of the Enchanted Lyre BOOK III I. The Arrival II. The Dinner III. Rhacotis IV. The Orgie at Bacchis’s V. The Crucified One VI. Enthusiasm VII. Cleopatra BOOK IV I. Demetrios Dreams a Dream II. The Panic III. The Crowd IV. The Response V. The Garden of Hermanubis VI. The Walls Of Purple BOOK V I. The Supreme Night II. Dust Returns to Earth III. Chrysis Immortal IV. Pity V. Piety PREFACE The very ruins of the Greek world instruct us how our modern life might be made supportable. RICHARD WAGNER The learned Prodicos of Ceos, who flourished towards the end of the fifth century before our era, is the author of the celebrated apologue that Saint Basil recommended to the meditations of the Christians: _Heracles between Virtue and Pleasure_. We know that Heracles chose the former and was therefore permitted to commit a certain number of crimes against the Arcadian Stag, the Amazons, the Golden Apples, and the Giants. Had Prodicos gone no further than this, he would simply have written a fable marked by a certain cheap Symbolism; but he was a good philosopher, and his collection of tales, _The Hours_, in three parts, presented the moral truths under the various aspects that befit them, according to the three ages of life. To little children he complacently held up the example of the austere choice of Heracles; to young men, doubtless, he related the voluptuous choice of Paris, and I imagine that to full-grown men he addressed himself somewhat as follows: