RAMBLES AND STUDIES GREECE J. P. MAHAFFY, C. V. O. GRAND COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF THE SAVIOUR AUTHOR OF SOCIAL LIFE IN GREECE, A HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE GREEK LIFE AND THOUGHT FROM THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE SILVER AGE OF THE GREEK WORLD WHAT HAVE THE GREEKS DONE FOR MODERN CIVILIZATION ETC. HON. MEMBER OF THE ARCH, SOCIETY AND OF THE PARNASSUS SOCIETY OF ATHENS HON. PH D. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS HON. D. C. L., OXON LL. D., s. ANDREWS PH. D., LOUVAIN, ETC., ETC. SEVENTH EDITION THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1 9 3 All ...
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RAMBLES AND STUDIES GREECE J. P. MAHAFFY, C. V. O. GRAND COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF THE SAVIOUR AUTHOR OF SOCIAL LIFE IN GREECE, A HISTORY OF GREEK LITERATURE GREEK LIFE AND THOUGHT FROM THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE SILVER AGE OF THE GREEK WORLD WHAT HAVE THE GREEKS DONE FOR MODERN CIVILIZATION ETC. HON. MEMBER OF THE ARCH, SOCIETY AND OF THE PARNASSUS SOCIETY OF ATHENS HON. PH D. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS HON. D. C. L., OXON LL. D., s. ANDREWS PH. D., LOUVAIN, ETC., ETC. SEVENTH EDITION THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1 9 3 All rights reserved RAMBLES AND STUDIES IN GREECE HUNC LIBRUM Ebntunfco M att OB INSIGNEM INTER CASTRA ITINERA OTIA NEGOTIA LITTERARUM AMOREM OLIM DEDICATUM NUNC MEMORIAE EJUSDEM CARISSIMI AMICI APUD ULUNDI OCCISI CONSECRAT AUCTOR PREFACE THIS book was first published nearly forty years ago. It has since met with many rivals, and the country it describes has meantime be come far more accessible and therefore better known. Yet it is still alive and still finds readers, because the subject of which it treats is of undying interest, and the permanent features of Greece and the Greeks will com mand human interest wherever men are civilised. There are books of travel much older than the present which have become part of the English gentlemans library. So much is due to a great subject. As regards the treatment, if any one would take the trouble to compare a page of the meritorious Baedeker with a corresponding page in this book, he would at once see the difference between the pragmatical and the sentimental view of the same facts. For viii RAMBLES IN GREECE this book is distinctly a sentimental journey, omitting much that appeared to the writer ephemeral or commonplace, anddelaying in the contemplation of those things which have made Greece of paramount importance to cul tivated Europe. The lapse of years has made it necessary to omit here and there a name, or even a prophecy which has not been fulfilled, but the main body of the book is as true now as it was a generation ago, and it has been a labour of love to endeavour to make its style more worthy of its fascinating subject. From this point of view there have been many changes made in this new edition offered to the public to whom Greece is now accessible in an ordinary holiday time. But even to those that stay at home, it will serve as a carefully verified report of the scenery of a country which occupies so large a place in their education. The pictures of buildings and statues in the former editions have been omitted, because there is now ample facility for acquiring photographs of all the striking things here described. The main desire of the author has been not only to make the book better, but also cheaper and more PREFACE ix portable. If his old and good friends s the Greeks, find here some candid criticism, they will receive it as the advice of one who has spent most of his life in promoting the interest of mankind in their fascinating country. The Greek public is surely too intelligent to resent friendly comment on its failings. And now, in the glow of their recent splendid victories, when Joannira and Salonica are in their hands, they will look with less sensitiveness on the criticisms which fearlessly showed them their weaknesses, made allowance for their difficul ties, and gave them full credit for their honest endeavours. As I stood in the Parthenon on Easter Day in 1912, and addressedall the magnates of the nation and the crowd of learned visitors on the occasion of that mem orable feast, I felt in the audience the earnest ness of a new life, the dawn of new hopes. They told me that war was imminent, and of their confidence in victory which then seemed chimerical. At last we may hope that the true resurrection of Greece is being accomplished. TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN March, 1913 CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE INTRODUCTION ....... i I. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE COAST . . .15 II. GENERAL IMPRESSIONS OF ATHENS AND ATTICA . 34 III. ATHENS THE MUSEUMS THE TOMBS . ...
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