The Glory That Was Greece: a survey of Hellenic culture and civilisationStobart, J. C. (John Clarke)
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The Glory That Was Greece: a survey of Hellenic culture and civilisation
Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke)
Art, Greek; Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
Romans, the, and Greece, 245;
and Greek philosophy, 258;
and Hellenism, 260;
and the control of Greece, 261;
and Græco-Roman art, 265
Romantic, the, in the Greek character, 180
Roof-tiles, 108
Roxana, 242
Royal Portico, the, 167
Running Girl (statue), 161
Ruskin, John, 150
Sacred Band, the, 180, 205
“Sacred Wars,” 241
Sacrifice and ritual at Olympic Games, 77
Sacrifices and the dead, 66
Salamis, 110, 138
Samos, 142
Samothrace, 252
Sanitation, Cnossian, 26
Sappho, 119-121
Sardis, 133
Satyr, the young, by Praxiteles, 213, 214, 215
Satyric drama and the Satyrs, 173
Scepticism, Ionian, 122
Scheria, 48
Schliemann’s discoveries, 13
Scopas the Parian, 212, 217, 221
Sculpture of the Homeric period, 54;
development of, 69;
inspired by athletes, 80;
Ionian, 123 _et seq._;
earliest temple, 130;
before Pheidias, 147;
methods, 148;
materials, 149;
pediment figures, 150;
metopes, 153;
frieze (Parthenon), 153;
statues by Pheidias, 156, 157;
works of sculptors, 159-161;
great sculptors, 159;
minor sculptors, 192;
of the fourth century, 211;
materials, 212;
anatomy, 212;
supports, 213;
works by Praxiteles, 213-217;
convention, 216;
tinted marble, 216;
Scopas, 217;
Lysippus, 218;
works by unknown artists, 219;
six greatest statues, 219;
bronzes, 220;
the Venus of Milo, 251;
Græco-Roman, 265;
the Laocoön, 265
Scyros, 190
Sea, Hesiod and the, 63;
the Greek true element, 262
Sea-power, 195
Seleucid kings, the, 244
Selinus, 130
Sellasia, 239, 245
Semites, the, 129
Seven Sages, the, 74, 101, 106
Seven Wonders of the World, 247
Sex problem, the, 180
Shakespeare and Menander, 253, 261
Shelley’s “Adonais,” 250
Shield of Achilles, the, 42-47
Shields lost in battle, 121
Sicily, tyranny in, 104;
poets in, 126;
and wheat, 127;
the Semites and (Carthaginian invasion), 129, 137;
Athens and, 142, 144, 195;
Idylls of Theocritus, 249;
history, 250
Sicyon, 104, 109
Sidon sarcophagus, 246
Sigeum, 110, 121
Simonides, 104, 109, 113, 122, 129
Simplicity, Greek, in drama, 182
Sirens, the, 66
Skirophoria, 99
“Skolia,” 114
Slavery, 145, 171, 236
Slavs, the, 262
Snake-worship, 69, 99
Socialist, Pericles a, 143;
Plato the father of socialism, 255
Socrates and the education of women, 82;
and Alcibiades, 144;
attacks upon, 145;
and Aspasia, 146;
and the Royal Portico, 167;
Xenophon and, 203;
the personality of, 231;
trial and death, 232;
his philosophy, 231, 234
Soldiers, Spartan, 204;
professional, 238
Solon, the Spartans and, 74;
his laws, 97, 99, 100, 191;
poetry, 100;
and Egypt, 101;
and Peisistratus, 110;
and Cleisthenes, 118;
and funerals, 191;
historians and, 228
Sophistry, 231
Sophocles, actors in, 174;
and the Athenian spirit, 177;
number of his works, 182;
and Aristophanes, 186
_Sophrosune_, 10
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