_Parabasis_, an ode sung by the chorus in Greek drama at their entrance on the stage. _Peplos_, a long female robe or mantle. _Perioikoi_, neighbours, the second class in the Spartan caste system. _Peripteral_, surrounded with colonnades. _Peristyle_, the colonnades surrounding a building. _Pictographic script_, a form of writing in which the symbols are rudimentary pictures. _Pnyx_, a hill at Athens, where the Assembly met. _Prodomos_, fore-court. _Satrap_, a Persian viceroy. _Skolion_, a drinking-song in which the guests took part in turns. _Stasis_, civil strife, party-feeling, treason. _Stēlē_, a monument in the form of an erect slab, a gravestone. _Strategoi_, generals, an Athenian magistracy. _Strigil_, an instrument used by athletes for scraping off the oil and sand of the palæstra. _Stylobate_, the floor from which the columns rise (A). _Telos_, goal or end in view. _Thalamos_, inner chamber, bed-chamber of the master of the house. _Thalassocracy_, maritime supremacy. _Tholos_, a vault or dome, any round building. _Triglyphs_, A. _Xoanon_, an image mainly in the form of a tree-trunk. BIBLIOGRAPHY [The following list of books will serve two purposes, as a guide to the reader who wishes to inquire further on any special point, and as an acknowledgment of some of the obligations of the writer. Only works in English are here included.] _General Histories of Greece_ BURY, PROFESSOR J. B. A History of Greece. Macmillan. The most up-to-date “student’s history”; copiously illustrated; a storehouse of facts in narrow compass. GROTE, G. History of Greece. From the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander. 10 vols. Murray. HOLM, ADOLF. The History of Greece from its Commencement to the Close of the Independence of the Greek Nation. Translated by F. Clarke. 4 vols. Macmillan. Short chapters with elaborate notes, written from a liberal and sympathetic point of view. _Special Works on the Early Periods_ BURROWS, PROFESSOR R. M. The Discoveries in Crete and their Bearing on the History of Ancient Civilisation. Murray. EVANS, SIR ARTHUR. Principal work of, is to be found in the Annuals of the British School at Athens. Macmillan. GRUNDY, DR. G. B. The Great Persian War and its Preliminaries. A Study of the Evidence, Literary and Topographical. Murray. LANG, ANDREW. Homer and his Age. Longmans. MOSSO, ANGELO. The Palaces of Crete and their Builders. Fisher Unwin. MURRAY, PROFESSOR GILBERT. The Rise of the Greek Epic. Clarendon Press. RIDGEWAY, PROFESSOR W. The Early Age of Greece. 2 vols. Cambridge University Press. ---- Minos the Destroyer rather than the Creator of the so-called Minoan Culture of Cnossos. (A lecture delivered before the British Academy, May 26, 1909.) _Politics_ BARKER, E. The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle. Methuen.