A manual of Grecian antiquitiesJohn R. Priestley, 1832 - 283 pages |
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Page 133 - Whilst engaged in singing these choral strains to the accompaniment of flutes, the performers were also moving through dances in accordance with the measure of the music, passing, during the strophe, across the orchestra, from right to left ; during the antistrophe, back, from left to right, and stopping, at the epode, in front of the spectators. § Each department of the Drama had a peculiar style of dance suited to its character. That of Tragedy was called EJU.JWE* This division of the chorus was...
Page 254 - ... impressed with these notions of its purity, the government of Athens, in all probability, was afraid materially to change that style and appearance by which their money was known and valued among these people. A similar proceeding in the state of Venice throws the strongest light on the practice of the Athenians. The Venetian sechin is perhaps the most unseemly of the coins of modern Europe: it has long been...
Page 124 - Athens stood on the south-eastern side of the eminence crowned by the noble buildings of the Acropolis. From the level of the plain a semicircular excavation gradually ascended up the slope of the hill to a considerable height.
Page 95 - DIV one business ; others, for another ; and some for none. The way to avert an omen was either to throw a stone at the thing, or to kill it outright, that so the evil portended might fall upon its own head : if it were an unlucky speech, to retort it upon the speaker with, Let it fall on thine own head.
Page v - LECTURES ON THE COINAGE OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS, Delivered in the University of Oxford. By Edward Cardwell, DD, Principal of St. Alban's Hall, and Professor of Ancient History. 8vo, cloth, 4s. (original price bs. 6d.) A very interesting historical volume, and written in a pleasing and popular manner.
Page 67 - Greece the priests never formed a distinct order, and still less a caste, religion never was united to the state to the same extent as in other countries. It was sometimes subservient to public policy, but never became its slave. The dry, prosaic religion of the Romans could be used or abused to such purposes ; but that of the Greeks was much too poetical. The former seems to have existed only for the sake of the state : and the latter, even when it was useful to the state, appears to have rendered...
Page 139 - ... which were now known to the Greeks, consisted chiefly in sailing round, and sailing through the enemy's line." The object of the first was, to extend the line beyond the opposite wings ; of the second, to break through the hostile line. To prevent this, the other fleet was drawn up in two lines, both with intervals, so that the divisions of the second line could pass through the intervals in the first, and thus assist them, when assistance was needed. This order was particularly understood by...
Page 67 - ... all of them priests ; nor was it necessary for every priest to be initiated into the mysteries. Any person could be admitted to them whose condition in life and behavior were found to deserve the distinction. These regulations led to important consequences. There was in the nation no separate class which claimed an exclusive right to certain branches of scientific and intellectual education, and preserved that exclusive right by means of written characters, intelligible only to themselves. That...
Page 250 - It may readily be supposed that the lead, which was found together with the silver in the mines of Laurium, was not always perfectly separated from it by the ancient process of refining : but the quantity of that metal which has hitherto been discovered in the silver...
Page 138 - Thucyd. i. 14. than the military ? And if so, through whom, and by what means ? And here the reader must not forget, that we are treating of the times previous to the dominion of Macedonia. It is apparent from the preceding observations, that the Greeks had more reason to improve their naval than their military tactics. They were often obliged to contend with fleets, not only superior to theirs in number, but also in the excellence of the vessels ; for in the Persian wars, the squadrons of the Phoenicians...