List of Illustrations

FIGURE

1. GOLD DISK FROM MYCENÆ

2. WOMEN KNEADING BREAD TOTHESOUND OF THE FLUTE

3. ELECTRON STATER OF PHOCÆA

4. SILVER STATER OF ÆGINA

5. MALE HEAD, KNOWN AS THE RAMPIN HEAD.

6. MAIDEN OF ANTENOR

7. A PIRATE SHIP

8. COINS OF SYRACUSE

9. WARSHIPS AND MERCHANTMEN

10. CORINTHIAN BOAT LOADED WITH POTTERY

11. ARCESILAS VASE

12. SILVER STATER OF CORINTH

13. EMBROIDERY OF A CLOAK, FROM THE FRANÇOIS VASE

14. WARRIOR WEARING THE CORINTHIAN HELMET

15. EXTRACTION OF CLAY

16. POTTER AT THE KILN

17. POTTER AT THE KILN

18. DEMOLITION OF A KILN

19. KILN FULL OF POTTERY

20. THE SUICIDE OF AJAX, ON A CORINTHIAN CRATER

21. THE FRANÇOIS VASE

22. POTTER’S WORKSHOP

23. AMPHORA OF NICOSTHENES

24. THE ERECHTHEION

25. HEAD OF A SEMITE

26. SLAVES IN A POTTERY WORKS

27. WOMAN PREPARING WOOL

28. WORK IN THE GYNÆCEUM

29. CYZICENE OF ELECTRON

30. GOLD STATER OF LAMPSACOS

31. ATTIC TETRADRACHM (ARCHAIC STYLE)

32. ATTIC TETRADRACHM (LATE STYLE)

33. PLOUGHING AND SOWING

34. PEASANTS TAKING PIGS TO MARKET

35. SATYRS GATHERING GRAPES

36. OLIVE-GATHERING

37. SALE OF OIL.

38. SPINNING-WOMAN DRAWING OUT HER YARN

39. THE WEAVING-LOOM

40. THE WEB OF PENELOPE

41. HOIST

42. THE VASE-PAINTER

43. COMPETITION OF APPRENTICE VASE-PAINTERS

44. BRONZE-WORKER’S STUDIO: CASTING AND PUTTING TOGETHER

45. BRONZE-WORKER’S STUDIO: FINISHING

46. SHOE-MAKER AT WORK

47. ASS CARRYING A PACKAGE

48. GOLD STATER OF ALEXANDER

49. DIDRACHM OF RHODES

For the illustrations of this volume I have borrowed largely from the publications of the firm of Hachette, and especially from the Dictionnaire des Antiquités of MM. Saglio and Pottier. I take this opportunity of thanking the publishers for their permission to do so. I also owe a debt of thanks to MM. Crès and Burthe d’Annelet, who were good enough to lend me their blocks.

(In the references given under the illustrations “Perrot” refers to Perrot and Chipiez’s Histoire de l’art D.A. to the Dictionnaire des Antiquités of Saglio and Pottier, and B.C.H. to the Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique.)