[Cover image] RAMBLES IN GREECE [Illustration: The Acropolis, Athens] RAMBLES AND STUDIES IN GREECE BY J. P. MAHAFFY KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF THE SAVIOUR; AUTHOR OF “SOCIAL LIFE IN GREECE;” “A HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE;” “GREEK LIFE AND THOUGHT FROM THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER;” “THE GREEK WORLD UNDER ROMAN SWAY,” ETC. ILLUSTRATED PHILADELPHIA HENRY T. COATES & CO. 1900 HUNC LIBRUM *Edmundo Wyatt Edgell* OB INSIGNEM INTER CASTRA ITINERA OTIA NEGOTIA LITTERARUM AMOREM OLIM DEDICATUM NUNC CARISSIMI AMICI MEMORIAE CONSECRAT AUCTOR PREFACE. Few men there are who having once visited Greece do not contrive to visit it again. And yet when the returned traveller meets the ordinary friend who asks him where he has been, the next remark is generally, “Dear me! have you not been there before? How is it you are so fond of going to Greece?” There are even people who imagine a trip to America far more interesting, and who at all events look upon a trip to Spain as the same kind of thing—southern climate, bad food, dirty inns, and general discomfort, odious to bear, though pleasant to describe afterward in a comfortable English home.