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.
Thucydides and tradition, 100;
and Greek tragedy in history, 136;
and Pericles, 143;
and the perspective of Greek history, 194;
ethical purpose, 228;
speeches in, 229
Thurii, 142
Tiberius, Emperor, 218
Timanthes, 79
Timotheus of Miletus, 224
Tiryns, 24, 28
Tissaphernes, 199, 201
Tombs, 188;
Mycenæan, 29;
objects from, 191
Tombstones, 192
Traeis, battle of the, 127
Tragedy, 173-183;
development of, 76
Triphylia, 202
Tripod of Delphi, 68
Triptolemus, 98, 190
Troy, ruins of, 13, 36;
Homer and, 41
Truce, Sacred, 77
Turkestan, 243
Turkey, rule of, and war with modern Greece, 262
Tyranny, 256
Tyrants, the, 104, 105
Tyre, 244;
destroyed, 247;
and Sidon, 129
Tyrtæus, 88
“Unities,” the dramatic, 182
Valhalla, 189
Vaphio gold cups, 30
“Varvakeion” statuette, 148
Vase-painting, decadence, 265
Vases, funeral, 191;
metal vases, 225.
_See also_ Pottery
Vatican, the, 265
Venetians, the, 262
Venus, 213;
Medici Venus, 214;
Venus of Milo, 251
Vergil, 261
Victory, Parthenon pediment, 152;
at Olympia, 160;
the Wingless Victory, 164;
of Brescia, 252;
of Samothrace, 252
Virtue, 257
Vitruvius on the orders of architecture, 227
Waldstein, Prof., on the Parthenon figures, 152
War and democracy, 195
War of Independence, 262
Warfare among the Greeks, 203
Wedgwood art, 263
Whitelaw’s, Mr., translation of Sophocles, 178
Winckelmann, 265
Wolf-god, 99
Women in Homer, 58;
and nudity, 82;
and gymnastics, 82;
Spartan women, 90
Wordsworth’s “Ode on Immortality” and the Platonic theory, 234
Writing, earliest European, 20
Xanthippus, 141
Xanthus, Harpy Tomb, 188, 123
Xenophanes of Colophon, 128
Xenophon and the Persian war, 201;
the Catabasis, 202;
retires to Sparta, 202;
his works, 203;
and the battle of Leuctra, 206;
as writer, 210;
favours Sparta, 228;
and Socrates, 231
Xerxes, 72, 116, 136, 139
Zaleucus of Locri, 73, 128
Zeno, 167, 257
Zeus, birthplace of, 15;
heaven of, 39;
in Homer, 50;
and minor deities, 66;
athletic honours to, 76;
in the Parthenon pediment, 151;
the “Dresden Zeus,” 148;
gold statue of, at Olympia, 109;
by Pheidias, 148, 149;
temple of, 111 168, 261;
Zeus Ammon, 251
Zeuxis, 191, 213, 223
Zoology, Aristotle and, 254
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] This and similar technical terms are explained in the Glossary at
the end of the book.
[2] Plate I, Figs. 1 and 2.
[3] Plates 2 and 3.
[4] Plate 4.
[5] Plate 5, Fig. 2.
[6] Plate 6.
[7] Plate 7.
[8] Plate 8.
[9] Plate 9.
[10] Plate 10.
[11] Plate 5, Fig. 1.
[12] Plate 11.
[13] Plate 12.
[14] Plate 12.
[15] Plate 13.
[16] Plate 14.
[17] Plate 15.
[18] Plate 16.
[19] Plate 17.
[20] Plate 18.
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