Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, C. F. CLAY, MANAGER. London: FETTER LANE, E.C. Glasgow: 50, WELLINGTON STREET. [Illustration] Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS. New York: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. [_All Rights reserved._] [Illustration] Primitive Athens as described by Thucydides by JANE ELLEN HARRISON, HON. D.LITT. (DURHAM), HON. LL.D. (ABERDEEN), STAFF LECTURER AND SOMETIME FELLOW OF NEWNHAM COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. Cambridge at the University Press 1906 Cambridge: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. VILHELMO DOERPFELD HUNC QUALEMCUNQUE LIBELLUM ANIMO SALTEM NON INGRATO DEDICAT J. E. H. Πηγὴν μὲν πολύκρουνον Ἀθηναίης ἀνέφηνας πηγὴ δ’ αὐτὸς ἔφυς καλλιρόου σοφίης. PREFACE. My _Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens_ has been for some time out of print. I have decided to issue no second edition. A word of explanation is therefore needed as to the purport of the present pages. Since my book on Athens was published Dr Frazer’s great commentary on Pausanias has appeared, and for scholars has made a second edition, so far as my book was a commentary on Pausanias, superfluous. The need for a popular handbook has been met by Professor Ernest Gardner’s _Ancient Athens_. It happens however that, on a question cardinal for the understanding of the early history of Athens, I hold views diametrically opposed to both these writers. These views I have felt bound to state.