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The Glory That Was Greece

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TABLET OF CRETAN LINEAR SCRIPT, FROM CNOSSOS13

From the Annual of the British School at Athens, vi. plate ii

BLACK VASE, FROM CYPRUS18

British Museum, First Vase Room, Case 7, C 81

PLAN OF NEOLITHIC HOUSE18

TERRA-COTTA FIGURE, FROM PETSOFÀ20

From the Annual of the B.S.A., ix. plate x

TERRA-COTTA IDOL, FROM TROY20

British Museum, Terra-cotta Room, Case 1, A 38

VOTIVE TERRA-COTTA, FROM PETSOFÀ21

From the Annual of the B.S.A., ix. plate viii

KAMÁRES CUP22

From the Annual of the B.S.A., ix. p. 305

KAMÁRES “HOLE-MOUTHED” JAR22

From the Annual of the B.S.A., ix. p. 306

CRETAN FILLER24

From the Annual of the B.S.A., ix. p. 311

CUTTLE-FISH KYLIX25

British Museum, First Vase Room, Case 19

CLAY SEAL IMPRESSION: PUGILIST25

From the Annual of the B.S.A., ix. p. 56

CITADEL OF TIRYNS27

After Schliemann’s reconstruction; from his “Tiryns,” by kind permission of Mr. John Murray

BEEHIVE TOMB: SECTION29

CRETAN CUP OF DEGENERATE STYLE31

From the Annual of the B.S.A., ix. p. 318

CLAY SEAL IMPRESSION, CRUCIFORM SYMBOL34

From the Annual of the B.S.A., ix. p. 90

WARRIOR STÉLÉ FROM MYCENÆ37

From Ridgeway’s “Early Age of Greece,” i. p. 314, by kind permission of the Cambridge University Press. An early representation of the arms and dress of the Northern Invaders

MARRIAGE PROCESSION45

From a pyxis in the British Museum, Third Vase Room, Case C, D 11 (see Plate 56)

SEATED STATUE FROM BRANCHIDÆ55

British Museum, Room of Archaic Sculpture, No. 9

GEOMETRIC VASE56

British Museum, First Vase Room, Case 34, No. 362

COIN OF CROTON, SHOWING TRIPOD63

British Museum, Room of Greek and Roman Life, III. 19

SHIP OF ODYSSEUS64

From a vase in the British Museum, Third Vase Room, Case G, E 440

LYRE AND CITHARA68

From vases, &c.

THE “DISCOBOLUS” OF MYRON80

Outline drawing of the statue in the British Museum

COIN OF CORINTH105

British Museum, Room of Greek and Roman Life, II. B 25. Obverse: Head of Athena wearing a Corinthian helmet. Reverse: Pegasus

GREEK ARCHITECTURE107

Diagram illustrating Doric and Ionic styles

COIN OF PHANES123

British Museum, Room of Greek and Roman Life, I. A 7

OSTRAKON OF THEMISTOCLES141

COIN OF ELIS: HEAD OF ZEUS148

British Museum, Room of Greek and Roman Life, III. B 33

COIN OF PHILIP II. OF MACEDON: HEAD OF ZEUS148

British Museum, as above, III. B 18

THE ERECHTHEUM: MODERN RECONSTRUCTION166

THEATRICAL FIGURES, COMIC AND TRAGIC175

From statuettes in the British Museum

COIN OF THRACE: ALEXANDER THE GREAT246

British Museum, Room of Greek and Roman Life, IV. B 20. Showing Alexander as a god with the horns of Ammon

THE LAOCOÖN GROUP264

Drawn from a photograph of the original at Rome

LATE GREEK VASE PAINTING266

British Museum, Vase Room, IV. Case 52, F 308

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