BIBLIOGRAPHY
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[The following list of books will serve two purposes, as a guide to the reader who wishes to inquire further on any special point, and as an acknowledgment of some of the obligations of the writer. Only works in English are here included.]
General Histories of Greece
Bury, Professor J. B. A History of Greece. Macmillan.
The most up-to-date “student’s history”; copiously illustrated; a storehouse of facts in narrow compass.
Grote, G. History of Greece. From the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander. 10 vols. Murray.
Holm, Adolf. The History of Greece from its Commencement to the Close of the Independence of the Greek Nation. Translated by F. Clarke. 4 vols. Macmillan.
Short chapters with elaborate notes, written from a liberal and sympathetic point of view.
Special Works on the Early Periods
Burrows, Professor R. M. The Discoveries in Crete and their Bearing on the History of Ancient Civilisation. Murray.
Evans, Sir Arthur. Principal work of, is to be found in the Annuals of the British School at Athens. Macmillan.
Grundy, Dr. G. B. The Great Persian War and its Preliminaries. A Study of the Evidence, Literary and Topographical. Murray.
Lang, Andrew. Homer and his Age. Longmans.
Mosso, Angelo. The Palaces of Crete and their Builders. Fisher Unwin.
Murray, Professor Gilbert. The Rise of the Greek Epic. Clarendon Press.
Ridgeway, Professor W. The Early Age of Greece. 2 vols. Cambridge University Press.
—— Minos the Destroyer rather than the Creator of the so-called Minoan Culture of Cnossos. (A lecture delivered before the British Academy, May 26, 1909.)
Politics
Barker, E. The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle. Methuen.
Fowler, W. Warde. The City State of the Greeks and Romans. Macmillan.
Greenidge, A. H. J. A Handbook of Greek Constitutional History. Macmillan.
Whibley, L. Greek Oligarchies: their Organisation and Character. Methuen.
—— Political Parties in Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Prince Consort Dissertation. 1888. Cambridge University Press.
Mythology and Religion
Farnell, L. R. The Cults of the Greek States. 5 vols. Clarendon Press.
Frazer, J. G. Adonis, Attis, Osiris. Macmillan.
Harrison, Jane E., and Verrall, M. de G. Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens. 1890.
Lawson, J. C. Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion. Cambridge University Press.
Reinach, Salomon. Orpheus. A General History of Religions. Heinemann.
Sculpture and Art
Gardner, Professor E. A. A Handbook of Greek Sculpture. New Edition, with Appendix. In two Parts; Appendix separately. Macmillan.
Jones, H. Stuart. Select Passages from Ancient Writers, Illustrative of the History of Greek Sculpture. Macmillan.
Murray, A. S. A Handbook of Greek Archæology. Murray.
Perrot and Chipiez. History of Art in Primitive Greece. 2 vols. Chapman and Hall.
Waldstein, Charles. Essays on the Art of Pheidias. Cambridge University Press.
Walters, H. B. Greek Art. Methuen.
—— The Art of the Greeks. Methuen.
Coinage
Head, B. V. Historia Numorum. A Manual of Greek Numismatics. Clarendon Press.
Hill, G. F. Greek and Roman Coins. Macmillan.
Bronzes
Murray, A. S. Greek Bronzes. Seeley.
British Museum Catalogue.
Vases
British Museum Catalogues: Greek and Etruscan, White Athenian Vases.
Literature
Jebb, Sir Richard. A Primer of Greek Literature. Macmillan.
Jevons, F. B. A History of Greek Literature from the Earliest Period to the Death of Demosthenes. Griffin.
Topography, Social Life, &c.
Baedeker’s Greece. Fisher Unwin.
Becker, W. A. Charicles: or, Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks. Translated by the Rev. F. Metcalfe. Longmans.
Frazer, J. G. Pausanias’ Description of Greece. 6 vols. Macmillan.
Freeman, K. J. Schools of Hellas. Macmillan.
Gardiner, E. Norman. Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals. Macmillan.