Art, Greek; Greek drama -- History and criticism; Mythology, Greek
129. +Transliteration: korê arrêtos. Translation: "Korê the
mysterious, the horrible." Another meaning of arrêtos, as Pater
points out, is "unsaid, not to be spoken."
136. *With this may be connected another passage of Ovid--
Metamorphoses, v. 391-408.
138. *On these small objects the mother and daughter are hard to
distinguish, the latter being recognisable only by a greater delicacy
in the features and the more evident stamp of youth.
140. *A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and
Branchidae.
141. +Transliteration: hoi theoi para Damatri. Pater's translation:
"the gods with Demeter."
143. +Transliteration: katadesmoi. Liddell and Scott definition: "a
tie or band: a magic knot, love-knot."
145. +Transliteration: Dêô. Liddell and Scott definition: the verb
dêô means "I shall find," while the proper noun refers to Demeter.
147. +Transliteration: petra agelastos. Translation: "sullen rock."
147. *Pallere ligustra, / Exspirare rosas, decrescere lilia vidi.
HIPPOLYTUS VEILED: A STUDY FROM EURIPIDES
[152] CENTURIES of zealous archaeology notwithstanding, many phases
of the so varied Greek genius are recorded for the modern student in
a kind of shorthand only, or not at all. Even for Pausanias,
visiting Greece before its direct part in affairs was quite played
out, much had perished or grown dim--of its art, of the truth of its
outward history, above all of its religion as a credible or
practicable thing. And yet Pausanias visits Greece under
conditions as favourable for observation as those under which later
travellers, Addison or Eustace, proceed to Italy. For him the
impress of life in those old Greek cities is not less vivid and
entire than that of medieval Italy to ourselves; at Siena, for
instance, with its ancient palaces still in occupation, its public
edifices as serviceable as if the old republic had but just now
vacated them, the tradition of their primitive worship still unbroken
in its churches. Had the opportunities in which Pausanias was [153]
fortunate been ours, how many haunts of the antique Greek life
unnoticed by him we should have peeped into, minutely systematic in
our painstaking! how many a view would broaden out where he notes
hardly anything at all on his map of Greece!
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