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PREFACE.
The present volume nominally represents the fourth year of the
School, 1885-1886. It is devoted in great part to the paper of the
Director of that year, Professor Frederic D. Allen, on Greek Versi-
fication in Inscriptions. It contains also the paper of Professor John
M. Crow, a student of the first year, on the Athenian Pnyx, which
was presented too late to appear in the first volume. This paper is
accompanied by a plan of the Pnyx Hill, made in 1883 by Mr. Joseph
Thacher Clarke from an actual survey, which is believed to be the first
thorough survey ever made of this important site with exact measure-
ments and by the help of proper instruments. The Managing Com-
mittee are under great obligation to Mr. Clarke for this valuable plan,
and for the technical notes which he has kindly appended to various
passages of Mr. Crow's paper on the Pnyx. Two papers on the
Theatre of Thoricus by Messrs. Miller and Cushing, giving the results
of the exploration of this ruin which was undertaken by the School in
1886, will be found in this volume. The second of these, though
it relates chiefly to work done in the autumn of 1886, during the
directorship of Professor D'Ooge, is now published in anticipation of
the volume for 1886-188 7, in order that the full account of the
excavations at Thoricus may appear in one volume. The views of
the theatre given in Plates III.-VH. are from photographs made by
Mr. W. L. Cushing, the author of the second paper.
The volume ends with an article by Mr. J. McKeen Lewis on
Attic Vocalism, which will be read with a sad interest. The death
of this gifted and enthusiastic young scholar, which occurred April
29, 1887, a few days after his return from Athens, brings deep grief
to all who knew him, and disappoints the hopes of many others who
knew the promise of his scholarship.
The latest circular giving information about the School at Athens,
issued in January, 1S88, will be found at the end of the volume.
It is hoped that the publication of three volumes of Papers
during the present year will do something to justify the confidence
which the friends of our School at Athens have always felt in its suc-
cess, and to encourage their renewed efforts at this time to secure its
permanent establishment.
WILLIAM W. GOODWIN,^ Committee of
FREDERIC D. ALLEN, [■ Publication for
THOMAS W. LUDLOW, ) 18S5-1886.
February, 1888.
PREFACE.
The present volume nominally represents the fourth year of the
School, 1885-1886. It is devoted in great part to the paper of the
Director of that year, Professor Frederic D. Allen, on Greek Versi-
fication in Inscriptions. It contains also the paper of Professor John
M. Crow, a student of the first year, on the Athenian Pnyx, which
was presented too late to appear in the first volume. This paper is
accompanied by a plan of the Pnyx Hill, made in 1883 by Mr. Joseph
Thacher Clarke from an actual survey, which is believed to be the first
thorough survey ever made of this important site with exact measure-
ments and by the help of proper instruments. The Managing Com-
mittee are under great obligation to Mr. Clarke for this valuable plan,
and for the technical notes which he has kindly appended to various
passages of Mr. Crow's paper on the Pnyx. Two papers on the
Theatre of Thoricus by Messrs. Miller and Cushing, giving the results
of the exploration of this ruin which was undertaken by the School in
1886, will be found in this volume. The second of these, though
it relates chiefly to work done in the autumn of 1886, during the
directorship of Professor D'Ooge, is now published in anticipation of
the volume for 1886-188 7, in order that the full account of the
excavations at Thoricus may appear in one volume. The views of
the theatre given in Plates III.-VH. are from photographs made by
Mr. W. L. Cushing, the author of the second paper.
The volume ends with an article by Mr. J. McKeen Lewis on
Attic Vocalism, which will be read with a sad interest. The death
of this gifted and enthusiastic young scholar, which occurred April
29, 1887, a few days after his return from Athens, brings deep grief
to all who knew him, and disappoints the hopes of many others who
knew the promise of his scholarship.
The latest circular giving information about the School at Athens,
issued in January, 1S88, will be found at the end of the volume.
It is hoped that the publication of three volumes of Papers
during the present year will do something to justify the confidence
which the friends of our School at Athens have always felt in its suc-
cess, and to encourage their renewed efforts at this time to secure its
permanent establishment.
WILLIAM W. GOODWIN,^ Committee of
FREDERIC D. ALLEN, [■ Publication for
THOMAS W. LUDLOW, ) 18S5-1886.
February, 1888.