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Title: Rambles and studies in Greece
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Mahaffy, John Pentland, Sir, 1839-1919
Subjects: Art, Greek
Publisher: London Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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igureare much shorter and stouter than later Greeksor than we should consider graceful. The styleof this statue, however, though differing in manyspecial proportions, reminds us strongly of theiEginetan marbles in Munich, and so leads usfrom archaic stiffness into the true period ofbeauty and of perfection. This greater age is represented in the museumsof Athens chiefly through the reliefs of the Par-thenon and those now being unearthed at Olym-pia, which I mean to consider separately, throughthe statue of the athlete already noted, andthrough many beautiful fragments, so mutilatedthat they can hardly be used as illustrations. We shall, therefore, do well to go to the streetof tombs, where we can find such material asthe world can hardly equal, and in such con-dition as to be easily intelligible. A good manyof these tombs, and some of them very fine, havelately been removed to the National Museum,where a comparison will show how, even here,certain fixed grouping and certain monumental
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ARCHAIS 1 II BR< »NZI iPOLl a ; (NA1 L£S) hi.) ATHENS—THE MUSEUMS. 69 expressions of feeling were adopted by the artistswho represented family bereavements and domesticsorrow. What I have said of the museums is,doubtless, disappointing, as indeed it should be,if the feeling of the visitor is to be faithfully repro-duced. But I must not fail to add, before turningto other places, that, in inscriptions these museumsare very rich, as well as also in Attic vases, andlamps, and other articles of great importance inour estimate of old Greek life. The professors ofthe University have been particularly diligent indeciphering and explaining the inscriptions, andwith the aid of the Germans, who have collected,and are still collecting, these scattered documentsin a complete publication, we are daily having newlight thrown upon Greek history. Thus Kohlerhas been able from the recovered Attic tribute-lists to construct a map of the Athenian maritimeempire with its dependencies, which tells

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