H Cotterill - Ancient Greece a History

When the attempt is made in a book of this size to give a continuous account of the external history of Greece, and into this framework to fit a number of sketches descriptive of its art, literature, and philosophy, as well as other matters, it is of course necessary to omit many details and to rely on whatever skill one may happen to possess in selection and combination. In regard to antiquities and literature, I have drawn attention chiefly to what is extant and of general interest, and have trusted to description, illustration, and quotation rather than to disquisition and criticism. The Sections appended to each chapter treat subjects that are closely connected with the period covered by the chapter. Any of these Sections can be omitted without seriously interrupting continuity. Temples, Dress, Coins, and Vases have been relegated to Notes at the end of the volume, seeing that they are not specially connected with any one period.

The letters B.C. (but not A.D.) have been generally omitted, as unnecessary in a book on Ancient Greece.

To name in full all the books that one has to use in such work is unnecessary, but, since space did not always allow of exact reference on occasions when I annexed a fact or a sentiment, it is right that I should here acknowledge my obligations to the following modern writers: Baikie, Brard, Bergk, Bernoulli, Buchholz, Burrows, Bury, Busolt, Butcher, Archer Butler, Chamberlain (Grundlagen), Christ, Dawkins, Deussen, Diehl, Donaldson, Drpfeld, Dussaud, Sir A.J. Evans, Frazer (Pausanias), Furtwngler, E. Gardner, P. Gardner, Gomperz, Grote, Hall, Miss Harrison, Head, Hill, Hogarth, Holm, Hommel (Chronology), A. Lang, W. Leaf, Lwy, Mahaffy, Meltzer, Mover, Mosso, A.S. Murray, G. Murray, F.A. Paley, Petrie, Sir H. Rawlinson, Canon Rawlinson, Ridgeway, Ritter and Preller, Schlegel, Schliemann, Schuchhardt, A.H. Smith, G. Smith, W. Smith, Tsountas, H.B. Walters, Wilamowitz, Wood (Ephesus), Zeller, Zimmermann.

Also, in regard to the illustrations, my thanks are due to Mr. Hasluck, of the British School in Athens, and (especially in regard to vases) to Professor H. Thiersch, of Freiburg, as well as to many others whose names are mentioned in the List. Some of the illustrations supplied by F. Bruckmann and Co. are from their fine series of Greek and Roman Portraits; others are from Bernoullis Griechische Ikonographie. The autotypes of coins in Plates IVI are reproductions which I was permitted by the courtesy of the Director of the British Museum to make from Mr. Heads official Guide to the Coins ofthe Ancients.

In quoting Herodotus I have, with the permission of Mr. John Murray, frequently made use of Canon Rawlinsons version, and in translating Thucydides I sometimes accepted the guidance of Dale. For the compilation of the index I am indebted to Mr. C.C. Wood.

In this edition I have corrected misprints and other such inaccuracies and have made a few additions. As two reviewers have expressed their surprise that although Pythagoras and Plato are given a considerable number of pages, Aristotle is dismissed in a few lines, it seems advisable to point out again, what is plainly intimated on pp. 434 and 442, that the main subject of the book does not extend beyond the year 334, and that Aristotle, whose chief works were written after 335, is only mentioned in a slight forecast of a period which will be fully treated in another volume.

In the following list the names of those to whom the author is indebted for permission to use copyright photographs, &c., are given in italic below the title of the subject. Greece and the Aegean Sea
Sicily and Magna Graecia
Athens and the Peiraeus
The Route of the Ten Thousand I. Two Lekythi
Photo Mansell & Co. The larger, a white Attic lekythus (funeral oil-vase) with polychrome painting of early, severe style (c. 460). The smaller, a redfigured lekythus of the earlier and still somewhat restrained beautiful style, which afterwards became fanciful and fantastic; date c. 450. In British Museum.
II. Late-Mycenaean Vases (c. 1200)
Photo Mansell & Co. One has the polypus decoration; the other is an example of the characteristic Mycenaean false-necked amphora (Bgelkanne). In the latter vessel the neck, to which the handles are attached, has no aperture. The spout is set in the shoulder of the vessel, and in the picture it stands in front of the false neck and hides it. In British Museum.
III. An Attic Hydria of the Middle Black-figured Period (c. 550)
Photo Mansell & Co. Found at Vulci. Maidens fetching water from a fountain. Similar vases are inscribed with the names of the fountains Kallikrene or Kallirrho. This vase has the names of some of the maidens with the adjective kale (beautiful) appended, as frequently occurs in vase-paintings. On the lower part of the vase is depicted Heracles strangling the Nemean lion. In British Museum.
IV. A Late Black-figured Hydria (c. 510) from Vulci
Photo Mansell & Co. Harnessing chariot-horses. The driver in long white robe (cf. Fig. 74). Below, a boar-hunt. In British Museum.
V. An Apulian Funeral Amphora with Volute Handles
Photo Mansell & Co. Date c. 300. Scenes from the Sack of Troy (IliouPersis). Above, the death of Priam and of Hecuba; below, Ajax and Cassandra. In British Museum.