_Arch_, the pointed, as old or older, in its constructive form, than the round, 89, 99, 153, 154; its beginning in the sally-port of Tiryns, 97; earlier perfection of the round arch in Italy, 99, 100, 119; development of the arch at Spalato, 118, 154; its perfection in the Eastern Churches, 119 _Argos_, contrasted with Mykênê and Tiryns, 86, 90, 93, 96, 97, 106, 121, 123; increase of her power, 93; modern Argos contrasted with modern Athens, 106, 107; Turkish influence on modern Argos, 107, 108; its later history, 108; use of the name Argos, 110; Homeric position of, _ib._, 113; her destruction of Mykênê, 111, 112, 120, 124, 158; her early history and its continuity, 112-115, 162; ancient wall and theatre of, 118; Roman remains in, _ib._, 120; Byzantine church at, 119, 120 _Arta_, modern Greek frontier fixed at, 1 _Athens_, continuity of its history, 16-22, 247, 248; the birthplace of political history, 16, 204; contrast between old and new Athens, 17, 32, 34; compared with Rome, _ib._; results of Turkish rule in, 18; her primæval and later walls, 19, 20, 22; historical importance of the earliest wall, 20, 22; her position in the Homeric Catalogue, 21; visit of Basil the Second to, 23, 24, 26; Alaric at, 24; extinction of her schools by Justinian, _ib._; bequeathed by Nerio Acciauoli to Venice, 26; fame of, under foreign Dukes, 27; a piece of history wiped out by the destruction of the tower of the Dukes, 28-31, 274; temple of Olympian Zeus at, 32, 33, 38; how Athens differs from other cities, 34, 35; growth of art in, from Aristiôn to Pheidias, 37; one remaining mosque at, 41, 50; variety of remains in the _agorê_, 42; study of Christian-Greek architecture in, 43-50; metropolitan church at, 45, 47; date of Byzantine architecture in, difficult to fix, 46, 47; latest buildings at, not less worthy of study than the earliest, 50; the practical centre of modern Greek travelling, 68-70; modern Athens contrasted with modern Argos, 106; its geographical separation from Eleusis, 230, 231 _Attica_, 15; not mentioned as a land in the Homeric map, 21; merged in Athens, _ib._ B _Basil I._, the Macedonian, converts the Mainotes, 9 _Basil II._, the Slayer of the Bulgarians, visits Athens after his Bulgarian conquests, 23, 24, 26 _Blakesley_, Dean, value of his comments on the narrative of Herodotus, 61, 63; on Zôstêr, 242 _Byron_, at Mesolongi, 2; application of “the curse of Minerva” to the destroyers of the ducal tower, 31 C _Carthage_, her fate compared with that of Corinth, 187 _Cashel_, Rock of, serves as a parallel to the Athenian Akropolis, 33, 194 _Cerigo_, 6, 13 _Cheddar_, pass of, its Mykênaian character, 128 _Chorbati_, 125, 164 _Commonwealths_, Greek and Lombard, compared, 70-73