Studies of Travel: GreeceFreeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
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Studies of Travel: Greece
Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus)
Greece -- Description and travel
_Constantine Porphyrogennêtos_, his use of the name _Hellênes_, 8-10
_Corinth_, her position in Grecian legend and history, 183, 184,
195-198;
taken by Mummius, 185, 198;
her final overthrow by earthquake, _ib._;
her origin Hellenic, not Phœnician, 186, 187;
her fate compared with that of Carthage, 187;
temple of Athênê at, 188, 189, 198, 201;
her freedom proclaimed by Flamininus, 198;
absence of “Corinthians” in, 199, 200;
special vocal powers of man, beast, and fowl in, 200, 201;
her western position, 206
_Corinthian Gulf_, the, its historical position, 215
D
_Daphnê_, church of, 226, 228, 229
_Dawkins_, W. Boyd, on the retreat of the lion from Europe, 171
“_Druidical_,” abuse of the name, 89
E
_Eirênê_, Empress, her marriage with Leo the Fourth, 25, 26, 47
_Eleusis_, not in the Homeric Catalogue, 21, 60;
its geographical separation from Athens, 230, 231;
tomb of Stratôn at, 232;
temple of Dêmêtêr and Athênê at, 233, 235, 238;
its akropolis, 233;
Roman period of its history, 235, 236;
Alaric at, 236;
modern Eleusis, 237
“_Epeiros_,” use of the name, 216
_Epidauros_, city of Asklêpios, 77
_Epidauros_ (Dalmatian), 77
_Epidauros_ (Lakonian), 14, 77. See _Monembasia_.
F
_Flamininus_, proclaims the freedom of Corinth, 198
G
_Glastonbury Tor_, compared with Akrokorinthos, 195
_Greece_, Ionian Islands ceded to, 7;
origin of cities in, 176;
history of eastern earlier than that of western, 203-209, 214;
western, position of her religious centres, 205, 206;
leagues in, 209
_Greek_ hill-cities, compared with Italian, 88, 90;
colonial cities mark a later stage, 91
_Grote_ George, on the position of Argos in Peloponnêsos, 113
H
_Hadrian_, Arch of, at Athens, 24, 38;
_Stoa_ of, reproduces the Doric order, 40
_Helenê_, her island off Sounion, 245;
her place in Attic legend, 246
_Hellas_, insular, more striking than peninsular, 5
_Hellênes_, use of the name, 7;
confined by Constantine Porphyrogennêtos to the Mainotes, 8-10
_Hêraklês_, 36;
worship of, at Marathôn, 59, 60;
at Tiryns, 96
_Hermoupolis_, 15. See _Syros_.
_Hêrôdês Atticus_, theatre of, at Athens, 24, 42;
his _exedra_ at Olympia, 265, 266
_Herodotus_, his account of Marathôn, 61, 62;
range of the lion fixed by, 171
_Homer_, his description of Tiryns, 87
_Homeric Catalogue_, the, position of Athens in, 21;
Marathôn and Eleusis have no place in, _ib._, 60;
Tiryns how described in, 105;
Akarnania has no place in, 215, 216
_Hydra_, its history, 78-81
I
_Ionian Islands_, 7;
merged in the Greek kingdom, _ib._
_Isthmian Games_, the, strange application of the name to Epsom races,
220
_Isthmus of Corinth_, its varied history, 197
_Ithakê_, Homeric, 3, 217, 218
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