CHAP. PAGE I INTRODUCTION 1 II ATHENS 33 III SAMOS 68 IV EGYPT 86 V LYDIA 127 VI ARGOS 154 VII CORINTH 184 VIII ROME 215 IX SICYON, MEGARA, MILETUS, EPHESUS, LEONTINI, AGRIGENTUM, CUMAE 257 X CAPITALIST DESPOTS OF THE AGE OF ARISTOTLE, THE MONEY POWER OF THE RULERS OF PERGAMUM, PROTOGENES OF OLBIA 280 XI CONCLUSION 290 APPENDICES 307 INDEX 339 ILLUSTRATIONS FIG. PAGE 1 Lophos Loutrou from Daskalio station 42 2 On the road from Daskalio station to Plaka 42 3 Kamaresa 43 4 Kitsovouno from Kamaresa 43 (Figs. 1–4 from photographs by the author) 5 Corinthian terra cotta tablet depicting a miner at work 46 (_Antike Denkmäler_, I) 6 Coin of Athens with Athena and owl 53 (Macdonald, _Evolution of Coinage_) 7 Athenian coins: the wreath on the head of Athena 56 (_Bulletin de Correspondance hellénique_, XXX) 8 Persian “archer” 57 9 Samian coin with Samaina and Messanian coin with hare 75 (Hill, _Historical Greek Coins_) 10 Aiakes, father of Polycrates 82 (_Athenische Mitteilungen_, 1906) 11 Psamtek I 86 (Petrie, _Hist. Egypt_, III) 12 Vase with cartouche of Bocchoris found at Tarquinii 94 (_Monumenti Antichi della R. Acc. dei Lincei_, VIII) 13 Rhodian or (?) Milesian vase found at Naukratis 111 (Gardner, _Naukratis II_. By permission of the Egypt Exploration Fund) 14 Fikellura or (?) Samian vase found at Daphnae 113 (Petrie, _Tanis II_. By permission of the Egypt Exploration Fund) 15 Naukratite vase found at Rhitsona in Boeotia 115 (_Journ. Hellenic Studies_, 1909)