Lourdes, place of pilgrimage, 177 Lucretius, claims, 4 Lyric poetry, beginnings, 37; influence, 53-57, 59, 60 Lysias, presentation of argument in character, 83 M _Macbeth_, of Shakespeare, 48 Macedonian power, 205, 211 Machinery, inventions of Heron, 162-164; moving force of automatic _sakia_, 165 _Mad Herakles_, _see_ Euripides Magee, Archbishop, style of eloquence, 89; modelled after Chalmers, 90; style based upon principles of Isocrates, 90 Mahaffy, J. P., _Epoch of Irish History_: referred to, 173 _History of Greek Literature_: on poetry, 31; on obscurity of Thucydides, 79; on Isocrates and Demosthenes, 82; on conversation, 91 _Rambles and Studies in Greece_: on persistence of characteristics, 15, 16 _Social Life in Greece_: main thesis, 15 _Marius the Epicurean_, by Walter Pater, 244 Mathematics, school of Pythagoras, 153, 155, 156, 161, 167; theory of Descartes, 154; arithmetic, 153, 154; geometry, 158; mathematical physics, 162; library of Greek, 166; pure, 166, 169; Peripatetic, 170 Mausollus of Halicarnassus, tyrant, 205 Mechanics, development by Archimedes, Heron, and Alexandrian school, 162 Mediæval schools, training in logic, 150, 151 Medicine, formulated by Greeks, 147; school of Hippocrates, 171 _ff_; mediæval, 174, 175; and superstition, 174, 175; resurrection of, 176 Menander, character of plays, 34, 94; translations by Plautus and Terence, 61, 208, 209; influence, 61; portrays Attic society, 208-210; fragments of plays discovered in Egypt, 209 Meredith, George, characteristic of his work, 79 _Merope_, of Matthew Arnold, 58 Middle Ages, a period of gloom, 114, 115; conditions in, 181; causes of retrogression in, 182 Miletus, fall of, checks the development of Greek prose, 67; temple, statues at entrance, 120 Milton, John, poetic vision disturbed by political controversies, 42; influenced by Greek epic, 42; influenced by Greek drama, 46; poetic style and metre, 46; Matthew Arnold on, 46; defence of dramatic poetry, 47; on Shakespeare and Greek masters, 47; on Greek tragedy, 47-49; choruses and lyrical monodies, 50; inspired by Isocrates, 88, 90 _Areopagitica_: style, 88 _Comus_: lyric sweetness, 51 _Paradise Lost_: best modern epic, 42; compared with the _Iliad_, 43; divine and human in, 43; redundancy of similes, 43; and _Argonautics_, 43; and _Prometheus Vinctus_, 47 _Samson Agonistes_: Greek form, 47, 49, 50; borrowings from _Œdipus_ and _Prometheus_, 49; development influenced by Euripides, 49; Greek spirit, 50; lyrics and choral odes, 50, 51; Sir Egerton Brydges on, 50 _Mimes_, _see_ Herondas Minyæ, Tomb of the, 101, 108, 111 Motion and matter, 234 Mummius, cause of conquest of, 211