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
_Mykênê_, contrasted with Argos and Tiryns, 86, 90, 93, 96, 97, 121;
history of, 95, 126;
its point of likeness with New Grange, 101, 155;
destroyed by Argos, 111, 112, 120, 124, 158;
preserved by destruction, 123;
its primæval relics, 126;
position of the akropolis, 127 _et seq._;
the walls, 130, 131, 137;
the lion-gate, 132, 134-136, 159;
the tombs and treasures, 132;
gateways of the treasuries, 133, 134;
the inner fortress, 136-138;
Homeric description of, 138;
the treasuries and treasures, 140 _et seq._;
use of the word “treasures,” 141;
process of burial, 143;
striking effect of the masks, 144, 146;
beginnings of the arch, 154;
its special primæval character, 158-161;
carriage-road practically ends at, 164
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_Naupaktos_ (Lepanto), 210
_Nauplia_, high position of, under the Venetian and Turkish power, 82,
83
_Navarino_ (Pylos), battle of, 11, 13
_Neale_, J. M., his _History of the Holy Eastern Church_, 46, 47
_Nemea_, temple of Zeus at, 169, 170, 174, 178, 179;
the seat of Pan-hellenic worship, 169, 175;
legendary lion of, 169-172;
theatre at, 170, 180;
modern fauna of, 173
_New Grange_, its point of likeness with Mykênê, 101, 155
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_Olympia_, the religious centre of Hellas, 261-264;
temples of Hêrê and of Zeus at, 264;
_exedra_ of Hêrôdês, 265;
special interest of the basilican church at, 266-274;
desolation of, 273
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_Parnassos_, 181
_Parthenôn_, the, 17, 22;
its continuance as such in different ages, 23, 25, 27, 36;
thanksgiving of Basil the Second in, 23, 24;
changed into a mosque, 30;
its destruction in the Venetian occupation, 31
_Patras_, siege of, 2, 210, 273
_Patroklos_, Admiral of Ptolemy Philadelphos, his island off Sounion,
247
_Pausanias_, how his story of the battle of Marathôn differs from that
of Herodotus, 62;
Greek travelling in his day, 68, 69, 166, 168;
his description of Tiryns, 92;
on Argos, 120;
on the treasuries of Mykênê, 150, 151, 156;
distinguishes the treasuries of Mykênê from the tombs, 150, 156,
157;
records the tombs of the Sacred Way, 227;
the temple of Philê-Aphroditê, 230;
the worship of Poseidôn at Eleusis, 232;
his description of Sounion, 240
“_Pelasgian_,” abuse of the name, 88, 89, 100, 101
_Peloponnêsos_, southern, characteristics of its coastline, 5, 6;
lack of good roads in, 12
_Pentedaktylos_, 5, 8, 10, 13
_Periklês_, works of, how they should be studied, 18, 22
_Peterborough_ Cathedral, its west front compared with the _narthex_
of the Kapnikarea at Athens, 48
_Philé-Aphroditê_, temple of, 227, 230
_Pôros_, 78
_Poseidôn_, his worship at Eleusis, Sounion, and the Isthmus, 224,
225;
at Sounion, 241, 253, 254
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