avoided inserting in the text anything with which I had reason to think he would have disagreed. On one point on which there has recently been much controversy, the site of the Lenaeum, I have thought it best to relegate the discussion to a new Appendix; partly owing to its complicated character, and partly because I am not sure that Mr. Haigh would have entirely agreed with my views. He had not of course seen Miss Harrison’s _Primitive Athens_, and I do not think he had read some other recent writings on the subject, when he began to rewrite Chapter I; in particular, he seems not to have been acquainted with Nilsson’s _Studia de Dionysiis Atticis_—the most valuable contribution of recent years to discussions on the festivals. I have therefore allowed myself a fairly free hand in dealing with this topic. I am much indebted to Mr. W. H. Forbes of Balliol College for his kind criticisms on this part of my work. The following are the principal writings which have been published since the last edition, and which I have been able to consult, besides those already named: E. Capps, papers in the _American Journal of Philology_, _American Journal of Archaeology_, and _Chicago Decennial Publications_, vol. vi; Miss Harrison, _Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_; E. A. Gardner, _Ancient Athens_; Roberts and Gardner, _Greek Epigraphy_, vol. ii; Mazon, _Sur le Proagon_ (Rev. de Philologie, 1903); A. Müller, _Untersuchungen zu den Bühnenalterthümern_, and papers in _Philologus_ and _Berlin. Philolog. Wochenschrift_; Noack, _Das Proskenion in der Theaterfrage_ (Philologus, lviii); Exon, _A New Theory of the Eccyclema_ (Hermathena, xxvi); Dörpfeld, papers in _Hermes_ and _Athenische Mittheilungen_; Frei, _De certaminibus Thymelicis_; Hampel, _Was lehrt Aischylos’ Orestie für die Theaterfrage?_; Flickinger, _The meaning of ἐπὶ τῆς σκηνῆς in the Fourth Century B.C._; Engelmann, _Archäologische Studien zu den Tragikern_; P. Gardner, _The Scenery of the Greek Stage_ (J. Hell. Stud., 1899); Devrient, _Das Kind auf der antiken Bühne_; Dignan, _The Idle Actor in Aeschylus_; Völker, _Berühmte Schauspieler im griechischen Alterthum_; J. W. White, _An Unrecognized Actor in Greek Comedy_ (Harvard Stud. Class. Phil., 1906); Hense, _Die Modificirung der Maske in der griechischen Tragödie_; Körte, _Das Fortleben des Chors im griechischen Drama_ (Neue Jahrb. für Philol., 1900); Navarre, _Utrum Mulieres Athenienses scenicos ludos spectaverint_; Römer, _Über den litterarisch-aesthetischen Bildungsstand des attischen Theaterpublikums_; Foucart, _Le Culte de Dionysos en Attique_; besides the reviews of many of these works, and the introductions and notes to Starkie’s, Rogers’s, Sharpley’s, and van Leeuwen’s editions of a number of plays of Aristophanes, and various articles in Pauly-Wissowa, _Real-Encyclopädie_. A. W. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE. BALLIOL COLLEGE, _January, 1907_. CONTENTS