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    Release dateNov 25, 2019
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      The Glory That Was Greece - J. C. Stobart

      J. C. Stobart

      The Glory That Was Greece: a survey of Hellenic culture and civilisation

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664618801

      Table of Contents

      THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE

      PREFACE

      ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

      INTRODUCTION

      Hellenism

      The Land and its People

      I ÆGEAN CIVILISATION

      A New Chapter of History

      Crete, the Doorstep of Europe

      Progress of Ægean Culture

      The Mainland Palaces

      The Makers of Ægean Art

      II THE HEROIC AGE

      The Northern Invaders

      Homer and the Achæans

      The Shield of Achilles

      Kings and Gods

      Art of the Epic Period

      The Hero’s Home

      Hesiod’s World

      III THE AGES OF TRANSITION

      The Coming of Apollo

      Athletics

      Sparta

      Pallas Athene

      Tyranny and Culture

      Ionia

      The West

      IV THE GRAND CENTURY

      The Rise of Athens

      Pheidias

      Ictinus and the Temple-builders

      Tragedy and Comedy

      Aidôs

      V THE FOURTH CENTURY

      Athens

      Sparta and Thebes

      Fourth-century Culture

      Sculpture

      The Other Arts

      Literature and Philosophy

      VI THE MACEDONIAN WORLD

      Alexander and his Work

      Alexander in Art

      Alexandria

      Athens and her Philosophers

      VII EPILOGUE

      GLOSSARY

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      INDEX

      THE GLORY THAT WAS

      GREECE

      Table of Contents

      A Survey of Hellenic Culture

      & Civilisation: by

      J. C. Stobart, M.A.

      LATE LECTURER IN HISTORY

      TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

      LONDON

      SIDGWICK & JACKSON LTD.

      3 Adam Street, Adelphi

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      BALLANTYNE & COMPANY LTD

      AT THE BALLANTYNE PRESS

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      PREFACE

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      the progress of research, classical scholarship tends more and more towards narrower fields of specialisation. Real students are now like miners working underground each in his own shaft, buried far away from sight or ear-shot of the public, so that they even begin to lose touch with one another. This makes an occasional survey of the whole field of operations not only necessary for interested onlookers, whether they happen to be shareholders or not, but also serviceable to the scholars themselves. The task of furnishing it, however, is not an easy one. No man nowadays can be as fully equipped in archæology, history, and literary criticism as were great writers of general history in the last century like George Grote and Theodor Mommsen. We are driven, therefore, to one of two courses: either to compile encyclopædic works by various writers under slight editorial control, or else to sacrifice detail and attempt in a much less ambitious spirit to present a panorama of the whole territory from an individual point of view. The former plan is constantly producing valuable storehouses of information to be used for purposes of reference. But they tend to grow in bulk and compression, until, like the monumental Paully-Wissowa, they are nothing but colossal dictionaries.

      The writer who attempts the second plan will, of course, be inviting criticism at a thousand points. He is compelled to deal in large generalisations, and to tread upon innumerable toes with every step he takes. Every fact he chronicles is the subject of a monograph, every opinion he hazards may run counter to somebody’s life-work. He will often have to neglect the latest theory and sometimes he is unaware of the latest discovery. The best that he can hope for is that his archæology may satisfy the historians and his history the archæologists. My only claim to the right of undertaking such a task is that circumstances have so directed my studies that they have been almost equally divided between the three main branches—archæology, history, and literature. I have experienced the extraordinary sense of illumination which one feels on turning from linguistic study to the examination of objective antiquity on the actual soil of the classical countries, and then the added interest with which realities are invested by the literary records of history.

      It is by another title that the writer of a book like this makes his appeal to the general reading public. He must feel such a love of Greece and of things Hellenic that he is led by it into missionary enthusiasm. The Greek language has now, probably for ever, lost its place in the curriculum of secondary education for the greater part of our people. Whether this is to be deplored is beyond the question; it is, at any rate, inevitable. But there has always been a genuinely cultivated public to whom Greek was unknown, and it is undoubtedly very much larger in this generation. To them, though Greek is unknown Greece need not be wholly sealed. But their point of view will be different from that of the professional philologist. They will not care for the details of the siege of Platæa merely because Thucydides described it; they will be much less likely to overrate the importance of that narrow strip of time which scholars select out of Greek history as the classical period. Greek art will make the strongest appeal to them, and Greek thought, so far as it can be communicated by description. They will be interested in social life and private antiquities rather than in diplomatic intrigues and constitutional subtleties. My object is to present a general and vivid picture of ancient Greek culture. I recognise that the brush and camera will tell of the glory of Greece far more eloquently than I can. My text is intended to explain the pictures by showing the sort of people and the state of mind that produced them. Some history, some politics, some religion and philosophy must be included for that purpose. The result will be a history of Greece with statues and poems taking the place of wars and treaties.

      This volume is fortunate in the moment of its appearance, for it is now possible for the first time to illustrate the prehistoric culture of Greece in a worthy manner, and to attempt, at any rate, to link it up historically with the classical periods. Both the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and the British Museum have recently added to their collections magnificent and faithful models of the artistic treasures of Crete and Mycenæ. These I have been allowed to reproduce in colour (Plates 5 and 7) by kind permission of Sir A. J. Evans. I must also acknowledge my obligation to the Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., U.S.A., for permission to reproduce photographs of the lately discovered reliefs from the Ludovisi Throne, which have not as yet been adequately reproduced anywhere (Plate 32); to the Committee of the British School at Athens, through the kind offices of the Secretary, Mr. John Penoyre, for permission to use many of the illustrations of Cretan objects that have appeared in their Annual; to Mr. John Murray, for the use of the block representing the Cupbearer Fresco (Plate 6) and the illustration on p. 27 from Schliemann’s Tiryns; to the Cambridge University Press for a similar accommodation in respect of the illustration (p. 37) from Professor Ridgeway’s Early Age of Greece; and to M. Ernest Leroux, of Paris, for courteously permitting a reproduction to be made from a plate in MM. Reinach and Hamdy Bey’s sumptuous work, Une Nécropole Royale à Sidon. The authorities of the Greek and Roman and of the Coin and Medal Departments of the British Museum have also allowed many subjects to be reproduced; while I have gratefully to record the fact that the task of illustrating this book has been materially lightened by the co-operation of Messrs. W. A. Mansell & Co. I must thank Mr. Robert Whitelaw and his publishers, Messrs. Longmans, for permission to quote from the former’s translation of Sophocles, and finally I must acknowledge my debt to Mr. Arnold Gomme for much assistance in the correction of the proofs of this book.

      J. C. S.

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      Mycenæan Gems (see p. 23)

      ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

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