Note 1 — Chapter XI · THE SATYR AND THE BACCHANTE.

A: “Egeria” (Eger, 1875) as well as the collection of epic poems entitled “Orient and Occident” by K. V. von Hansgirg contain a poem called “Phidias,” in which, as in “Aspasia,” Pallas Athena appears to the dying sculptor. Hansgirg himself, in the latter volume, page 79, names 1874 as the date of the composition of this poem. My narration of the death of Phidias, on the contrary, was written in 1873, and as the entire romance was lying in the office of the Vienna “Neuen freien Presse,” I can appeal to the testimony of those who had the work in their hands, to prove that though many alterations were subsequently made in the MS. of “Aspasia” this particular scene then existed word for word precisely as it now appears in print, so that no suggestion can have been obtained from Hansgirg’s poem. ↑