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Wheresoever the patron is there will the poets be gathered together. When tyrants like Polycrates and Peisistratus ceased to exist in the East, and when the Ionian cities had fallen under the Lydian and Persian despotisms, the courtly poets migrated with their lyres and other luggage to Sicily and South Italy, where there were aristocracies as elegant and tyrants as bountiful. The centres of commerce in this
Plate 32.—Reliefs from the “Ludovisi” Throne, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A.
period before Athens rose into prominence were
The Glory That Was Greece
Table of Contents
- Preface 9
- Note 17
- Introduction 18
- Hellenism 19
- The Land And Its People 28
- I 46
- A New Chapter Of History 47
- Crete, The Doorstep Of Europe 52
- Progress Of æGean Culture 60
- The Mainland Palaces 84
- The Makers Of æGean Art 96
- II 104
- The Heroic Age 105
- The Northern Invaders 106
- Homer And The Achæans 119
- The Shield Of Achilles 124
- Kings And Gods 136
- Art Of The Epic Period 151
- The Hero’s Home 160
- Hesiod’s World 169
- III 175
- The Ages Of Transition 176
- The Coming Of Apollo 177
- Athletics 201
- Sparta 226
- Pallas Athene 254
- Tyranny And Culture 277
- Doric Style 288
- Ionic Style 289
- Ionia 315
- The West 336
- IV 350
- The Grand Century 351
- The Rise Of Athens 352
- Pheidias 387
- Ictinus And The Temple-builders 421
- Tragedy And Comedy 456
- Aidôs 497
- V 515
- The Fourth Century 516
- Athens 517
- Sparta And Thebes 530
- Fourth-century Culture 557
- Sculpture 567
- The Other Arts 598
- Literature And Philosophy 611
- VI 636
- The Macedonian World 637
- Alexander And His Work 638
- Alexander In Art 658
- Alexandria 663
- Athens And Her Philosophers 672
- VII 695
- Epilogue 695
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