_Erechtheus_ of Swinburne, 58 Etruscans, and the arch, 105; culture of, 110 Euclid, how attained perfection, 158, 159; on optics, 166; father of geometry, 167; founds Peripatetic Mathematics, 170 _Elements_: summary of all principles discovered previously, 158; three kinds of data, 159; careful definitions, 159; misfortune of, 160; thirteen books, 160, 161 Eudemus the Rhodian, collaborator with Aristotle, 169; his history of sciences, 170 Eudoxus, astronomer, 167 Euripides, Milton’s view of, 47; introduces “vulgar and trivial persons” into his plays, 48; influence on development of _Samson Agonistes_, 49; choruses of, 51; Browning’s version of his plays, 57-58, 64; and Tennyson, 60; Medea, 62 _Alkestis_: Browning’s version of, 57 _Iphigenia in Aulis_: type of heroine, 62; Aristotle’s criticism of, 62, 72 _Mad Herakles_: Browning’s version of, 57 _Everyman_, represents horrors of Middle Ages, 115 _Excursion_, _see_ Wordsworth F _Fall of Miletus_, _see_ Phrynichus _Faust_, _see_ Goethe Federation, early example, 203 Fick, Augustus, on place-names, 7 Frere’s translation of Aristophanes, 61, 64 G Geometry, Euclid’s, 158-161, 167; books on history of, 170 _Georgics_ of Virgil, 24 Germany, reduction of many states into one empire, 204 Gibbon, Edward, _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_, conception which moved author to write, 79 Gladstone, William E., style of eloquence, 89 Goethe, _Faust_: a world epic, 27; borrowings from _Argonautics_, 44 Golden Age of Greek Literature, 91 Gray, Thomas, Greek temper, 54; compared with Simonides and Bacchylides, 54; swept away by Romantic wave, 54; prefers Celtic and national subjects, 54; Greek style, 54; grasps splendour of Pindar, 54; shows influence of Greek poetry, 54, 55; love of nature, 59 Greece, advantageous position of, 11; economic conditions in time of Polybius, 206; modern character of civilisation, 207 Greek culture, vital essence, 182; Latin, compared with, 182 Greek learning, revival of, 17-20 Greek scholars in Western Europe, 17, 18 Greek society, conditions, 213, 214 Greek studies, place in higher education, 20-22; and Latin, 22, 23; source of culture, 23; comparative value of originals and translations, 23-26