Chapter I: Preface

Within the limits of this small collection of pictures an attempt is made to bring together as great a variety of subjects as possible. Portraiture is illustrated in the statue of Sophocles and the bust of Pericles, _genre_ studies in the Apoxyomenos and Discobolus, bas-relief work in the panel from the Parthenon frieze and the Orpheus and Eurydice, and ideal heads and statues in the representations of the divinities. Both the Greek treatment of the nude and the Greek management of drapery have due attention.

As classic literature is the best interpreter of Greek sculpture, the text draws freely from such original sources as the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Homeric hymns, and Ovid's Metamorphoses.

ESTELLE M. HURLL.

NEW BEDFORD, MASS.
January, 1901.

CONTENTS AND LIST OF PICTURES

PERICLES (_Frontispiece_) From original in British Museum

INTRODUCTION
I. ON SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF GREEK SCULPTURE vii
II. ON BOOKS OF REFERENCE x
III. HISTORICAL DIRECTORY OF THE MARBLES REPRODUCED
IN THIS COLLECTION xi

I. BUST OF ZEUS OTRICOLI 1 Picture from Photograph by Fratelli Alinari

II. ATHENA GIUSTINIANA (MINERVA MEDICA) 7 Picture from Photograph by D. Anderson

III. HORSEMEN FROM THE PARTHENON FRIEZE 13 Picture from Photograph by the London Stereoscopic Co.