Corcyrean massacre, Thucydides on, 77 Cornford, Mr., _Thucydides Mythistoricus_, referred to, 77 Criticism, literary, beginnings, 91; models of, 92; _Tract on the Sublime_, 92 Cyclic poets, 42 _Cyrus_, of Xenophon, 94 D Dante, gloomy splendour, 19 _Inferno_: 27 _Daphnis and Chloe_, author unknown, 96; best specimen of Greek novel, 96 Dark Ages, conditions in, 181; causes of retrogression, 282 Darwin, Charles, on sense of colour, 128 Death penalty, 192 Debts, reduction of by Solon, 186 _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, _see_ Gibbon Decoration, painting a branch of, 132, 133; household, 145, 146 _De Corona_, _see_ Demosthenes _De Finibus_ of Cicero, 245 _De Jure Pacis et Belli_, by Hugo Grotius, 198 Delos, discoveries at, 145 Delphi, treasury of Siphnos, 122; hymn discovered at, 134 Democritus, development of Atomic theory, 231, 232; consequences to which his theory led him, 233 Demosthenes, combined orator and politician, 70; character of orations, 83, 84 _De Corona_: greatest Greek oration, 83; style, 84 Derby, Lord, translator, 57 Descartes, teachings of, 216, 224; on colour, 216; on extension and thought, 224 Diagoras of Melos, atheist, 215 Dialects, Homeric, 33, 40, 41; main cause of their use, 40 _Dialogues_ of Plato, _see_ Plato Diatonic scale, basis of Greek music as well as of modern, 135, 142-144 Didot, _Epistolographi Graeci_, 92 Dikæarchus, collaborator with Aristotle, 169 Dion Chrysostom, rhetor and sophist, 93 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, essays of, 92 Dionysius of Syracuse, tyrant, 205 Diophantus, work in arithmetic and algebra, 161, 162, 167 Donatello’s problem, 113 Dorians, literary prose had its origin among them, 67, 68 Doric choral hymns, 41 Doric pillar, 104 Doric temple, 104 Dörpfeld, Dr., Greek critic, 27; discoveries at Tiryns, 105 Drama, Greek, beginnings, 36; influence, 46 _ff_, 57, 58 Dryden, John, translation of Virgil, 53; model for Gray, 54 _Ode to St. Cecilia_: shows Greek influence, 55 E _Eclogues_ of Virgil, 24 Education, Greek: ethical inquiry, 215; subjects of thought, 215; relation of music to, 136, 137, 144; relation of mathematics and science to philosophy, 179; higher: and Greek studies, 20; relation of mathematics and philosophy, 179; essential element, 214; best exponent, 215; relation to character, 241 Egypt, greatness, 5; influence on Greece, 11 Egyptian art, influence on Greek art, 145 Elea, school of, founder, 221 Eleusinian Mysteries, 115 Empedocles, wrote in verse, 39; principal feature of his system, 229; postulated principles of Love and Hate, 230, 231 _Entretiens sur l’architecture_, _see_ Viollet-le-Duc Epic poetry, Greek, 41; modern, 42; influence, 42 Epicteta, will of, 196 Epicureans, on music and morals, 138; and Stoics, 244 Epicurus, system of, 245 Epidauros, place of pilgrimage, 176 _Epistolographi Graeci_, 92 _Epoch of Irish History_, _see_ Mahaffy, J. P.