l6o XENOPHON ON HORSEMANSHIP. 



also, the points in each work which led me to 

 choose it for the purposes of this book. Without 

 too great presumption I may venture to remark 

 that but few, if any, of the Classics, except Homer, 

 have been thus closely and fully illustrated from 

 ancient art. The present attempt may serve to 

 show what an opportunity there is in this direction. 



FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Frontispiece. Bronze head in the Uffizi, Flor- 

 ence, No. 426 of the bronzes in the collection in 

 that gallery. From a photograph. The work was 

 found near Civita Vecchia, and was sent from 

 Rome to Florence in 1585, according to the 

 catalogue of the Uffizi gallery. The time of its 

 production is unknown. Originally there was a 

 bridle on the head ; the mouthpiece of the bit 

 still remains. This head has the ears wide apart, 

 leaving the poll large (see p. 17) ; and it therefore 

 illustrates the type of beauty which gave rise to 

 the term l3ovKicf>aXo<; (see note 12. p. 125). 



Page 17. From the frieze of the Parthenon, a 

 work completed about 440 b. c. under the direc- 

 tion of Phidias (see pp. 84 and 97). From a 

 photograph in "Masterpieces of Antique Art," by 

 S. Thompson. Although this slab is not in as 

 perfect a state of preservation as are some of the 

 others, yet it has always been among the most 



