PREFACE. VII 



assistance. There has been no edition of 

 the Greek text with English notes. 



The illustrations in this book are all 

 selected from the antique, and are repro- 

 duced from the best sources at my command. 

 These sources, together with a brief descrip- 

 tion of each picture, are given on page 158 ff. 

 I might have illustrated almost every subject 

 in the treatise by means of the Parthenon 

 frieze ; but I choose rather to omit all but a 

 few of these well-known works, and to present 

 others which are less generally known to the 

 readers for whom my book is primarily in- 

 tended. For it will be easy to see that I 

 have not written for philologians. The brief 

 essay on the Greek Riding-horse makes no 

 pretence to completeness, and little to origi- 

 nality. In it, and in the notes which follow, 

 my chief intention has been to offer only 

 what I thought would be necessary explana- 

 tion or interesting information to those who 

 do not profess to be classical scholars. Yet 

 perhaps even such scholars may find here 

 and there, especially in the notes, a few 

 points which may be new, and, I hope, not 

 unacceptable to them. And I sincerely wish 



