[8] I know no translation of the whole seven plays of Æschylus that I can recommend, though there be many admirable versions of the _Agamemnon_, but among the English reproductions of Sophocles let me call your attention to that of Mr. Whitelaw, of most of Euripides to that of Mr. Way. Both of these are eminently the work of scholars who are also poets. [9] I need hardly add that the brilliant comedies of Aristophanes are to be found in the well known books of J. Hookham Frere and of Mr. Rogers, who has quite recently brought out another play. [10] I say _fresco_ because this is usually occupied with historical scenes. [11] The reader can now consult the brilliant and suggestive _Thucydides Mythistoricus_ of Mr. Cornford on this aspect of the historian and his work. [12] Book iii., 82-4 [13] _Cf._ for example what Herodotus tells us in his fourth book of the affairs of Cyrene. [14] I must refer the audience for details to the chapter on Thucydides in my _History of Greek Literature_. [15] The minutiæ of rythm and harmony to which they condescended are such that I could not possibly make them clear to you in a short passage of a lecture, but must refer you to the chapters on Isocrates and Demosthenes in my _History of Greek Literature_. [16] _Cf._ § 457 of my _Greek Literature_. [17] On this _Cf._ §§ 416, 437 of my _Greek Literature_. [18] An exception may be made for the genuine letters of which we have found the actual originals among the papyri of Egypt. Here we find, among Greeks scattered abroad, the offspring of adventurous and mercenary soldiers, all the urbanities of modern letter writing. All the Roman formulæ of politeness we find in Cicero’s letters, were derived from this source--the long current Greek forms of correspondence. [19] If Shakspeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_ ends not in happiness, but in disaster, the devices of the play--the sleeping drug, the hiding in the tomb where the lovers again unite, these are the stock devices of our Greek novels, so clearly, that the story must have been derived through Italian versions from a Greek novel of this kind. Boccaccio was clearly influenced by this literature. [20] The first beginnings of music, in the form of whistles or pipes, are found among prehistoric remains of people who had never learned to write, but only to draw pictures. [21] In the rudest cases the house was not excavated but was built on the surface, and then covered with a mound of earth. [22] The inner lintel stone 30 feet long, 16 deep, and over 3 thick, weighs about 112 tons. The _dromos_ is 115 long and 19 wide. The doorway is 17½ feet high and 8 feet wide at the top swelling to 8½ at the ground. The whole chamber about 50 feet high and 50 across the floor. Read description in Baedeker, p. 324. [23] The beehive chamber I take to be an importation from northern and central Europe and therefore probably due to that strain in early Greek civilisation. [24] Villari’s _Studies_, p. 258.