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Greek Lands and Letters

Chapter 3: ILLUSTRATIONS
By Francis Greenleaf Allinson
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A travel-literary companion that interprets Greek places through their literary associations and, conversely, reads ancient and modern texts against the physical landscape. Focused on the mainland and adjacent islands easily reached from Athens, it provides chaptered tours of Piræus, the Acropolis and Athenian neighborhoods, Attica, Eleusis, Ægina, Corinth, Delphi, Thebes, Bœotia, Thermopylæ, Argolis, Arcadia, Olympia, Messenia, and Sparta. Selections and fresh translations of classical authors are set beside maps, illustrations, and local commentary; emphasis falls on myth, religion, historical narrative, and artistic context, while archaeological detail is kept subsidiary to literary and topographical interpretation.

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Propylæa Frontispiece
  From within looking toward Salamis
  From a painting by H. R. Cross
 
Map of Greece and the Ægean 1
 
Map of Piræus 32
 
Renan on the Acropolis 74
  From a French painting
 
S. Colonnade of the Parthenon 88
  From a photograph by R. A. Rice
 
Areopagus 104
 
Street of the Tombs 114
  Monument of Hegeso
 
After Polygnotus 134
 
The Panathenæa Continued 134
 
Map of Attica 144
 
Menander 152
  From bust in Boston Museum of Fine Arts
 
Sunium 162
  Temple of Poseidon. From a photograph by S. C. A.
 
Olive Trees on the way to Eleusis 178
  From a photograph by E. G. Radeke
 
Ægina 188
  Temple of Aphæa
 
Corinth 202
  Temple of Apollo and Acrocorinth
 
Delphi and the Road to Arachova 250
 
Map of Bœotia 266
 
A Gallery of the Acropolis of Tiryns 324
 
Calauria 356
  Temple of Poseidon. Scene of the death of Demosthenes
 
Olympia 388
  Kronos Hill. The ruins of the Altis
 
Taÿgetus 432
Nike of Samothrace, reproduced on the front cover, is
from a coin in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.
GREEK LANDS AND LETTERS
GREEK LANDS AND LETTERS