LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STUDIES IN GREEK SCENERY, LEGEND AND HISTORY SELECTED FROM HIS COMMENTARY ON PAUSANIAS’ ‘DESCRIPTION OF GREECE’ BY SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE AUTHOR OF ‘THE GOLDEN BOUGH’ MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON 1917 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _First published under the title, “Pausanias and other Greek Sketches,” 1900_ _Reprinted 1917_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE The Englishman in Greece who pays any heed to the remains of classical antiquity is apt, if he be no scholar, to wonder who a certain Pausanias was whose authority he finds often quoted on questions of ancient buildings and sites. The first of the following sketches may do something to satisfy his curiosity on this head. It has already served as an introduction to a version of Pausanias’s _Description of Greece_ which I published with a commentary two years ago. The account of Pericles was contributed to the ninth edition of the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_. I desire to thank Messrs. A. and C. Black for their courteous permission to republish it. The other sketches are reprinted, with some small changes and adjustments of detail, from my commentary on Pausanias. References to authorities have been omitted as needless in a book which is not specially addressed to the learned. Any one who wishes to pursue the subject further will find my authorities amply cited in the original volumes. Among works from which I have borrowed both outlines and colours for some of my sketches of Greek landscape I will here mention only two—the _Erinnerungen und Eindrücke aus Griechenland_ of the Swiss scholar W. Vischer, and the _Peloponnes_ of the German geologist Mr. A. Philippson. Slight and fragmentary as these sketches are, I am not without hope that they may convey to readers who have never seen Greece something of the eternal charm of its scenery. To such as already know and love the country they will yet be welcome, if here and there they revive some beautiful or historic scene on those tablets of the mind from which even the brightest hues so quickly fade. J. G. F. CAMBRIDGE, _March 30, 1900_. CONTENTS