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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph from Mary Mills Patrick 



A GENERAL STORE SOMEWHERE IN ASIA MINOR 



This tiny shop, with most of its goods in the front window, which also serves as show-case and 



doorway, specializes in groceries. 



from Asia : Herodotus was the climax and 

 the greatest of the group. Greek music 

 was largely Asian in its origin. 



In the realm of art the Ionian artists 

 preceded and gave the example to the 

 Greeks of Greece. The Old- Ionian art 

 had its own character, different in quality 

 from that of European Greece, and the 

 "Sons of Javan" were constructing great 

 temples, adorned with all the wealth of 

 sculpture and color, at an earlier date than 

 the Greeks on the west side of the ^Egean. 



Such temples as that of Apollo at 

 Miletus, of Diana at Ephesus, and of Ky- 

 bele at Sardis, originated in an extremely 



remote period, though in most cases they 

 were rebuilt repeatedly ; but every one of 

 the great Ionian cities and colonies had its 

 own wealth of art, sculpture, and painting. 



The Old-Ionian school naturally died 

 out; artists of the Athenian school were 

 widely scattered over the Greek world 

 after the brief Empire of Athens in the 

 Greek world came to an end, in 403 B. C., 

 and they exercised a powerful influence 

 on the art of the Ionian Greeks. 



Out of this sprang the Pergamenian 

 school and the Rhodian, which have left 

 some of the greatest monuments of Greek 

 art to modern times. 



