Preface
Table of Contents and Index
List of Illustrations
SCULPTURED TOMBS OF HELLAS
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SCULPTURED TOMBS
OF HELLAS
BY
PERCY GARDNER, Litt.D.
LINCOLN AND MERTON PROFESSOR OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
WITH THIRTY PLATES, AND EIGHTY-SEVEN ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
1896
[All rights reserved]
OXFORD: HORACE HART
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
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Out-lengthened to the utmost bounds of eld.
My name is Symmachus, in Chios born,
Which rich with grapes the branching vines adorn;
But when I died, my bones were hidden here,
In Attic land, to gods and men most dear.
Athenian Epitaph.
PREFACE
The monuments erected to the dead belong in every country, like funeralcustoms generally, to a deeper stratum of the national consciousnessthan do openly expressed beliefs. This is, in fact, a phase of thegeneral law that in the history of religion cultus is more venerable andmore conservative than doctrine. And as, further, the beliefs which findan expression in literature are those of the most enlightened and theleast conservative spirits, it is misleading if one attempts to learnfrom the higher literature of a people how the masses really think andfeel in regard to death and the life which lies beyond death.
These considerations are certainly applicable in the case of Greece. Thetwo great literatures of Greece, the Epic and the Attic, belong each toa class, to an aristocracy whether of birth or of talent, and stand highabove the belie