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viii PREFACE
guage, and tradition ought to be on the map of
Greece.
As I was the only American accompanying Dr.
Dorpfeld in his fruitful excavations at Troy in 1893, it
is a special satisfaction to present some of the main
results of that expedition to American readers.
Athens, the centre of Greek life and nationality, has
received a large share of attention. But such chap-
ters as " The Christian Shrine," " The Altar of the
Home," and others included in the section under
Attica, are subjects of a national character. The
great interest awakened among students by Dr.
Dorpfeld's studies of the old Greek theatre should
make welcome a popular account in English of the
essential features of his theory concerning it.
While I have confined myself mainly to my gen-
eral theme, I have tried also to infuse something
of the spirit of Greek life and nationality into these
pages; but writing for the general reader' rather
than for the specialist, I have had to omit a vast
number of facts and details upon which my state-
ments are based. For the same reason I have
sought to avoid the appearance of pedantry by
spelling in the most familiar way those proper
names which have slipped into English through the
Latin. I much prefer to transliterate Greek directly
into English, and in the case of modern Greek
words have generally done this. I should consider
it gross impiety to use a Latin name for a Greek
god.
guage, and tradition ought to be on the map of
Greece.
As I was the only American accompanying Dr.
Dorpfeld in his fruitful excavations at Troy in 1893, it
is a special satisfaction to present some of the main
results of that expedition to American readers.
Athens, the centre of Greek life and nationality, has
received a large share of attention. But such chap-
ters as " The Christian Shrine," " The Altar of the
Home," and others included in the section under
Attica, are subjects of a national character. The
great interest awakened among students by Dr.
Dorpfeld's studies of the old Greek theatre should
make welcome a popular account in English of the
essential features of his theory concerning it.
While I have confined myself mainly to my gen-
eral theme, I have tried also to infuse something
of the spirit of Greek life and nationality into these
pages; but writing for the general reader' rather
than for the specialist, I have had to omit a vast
number of facts and details upon which my state-
ments are based. For the same reason I have
sought to avoid the appearance of pedantry by
spelling in the most familiar way those proper
names which have slipped into English through the
Latin. I much prefer to transliterate Greek directly
into English, and in the case of modern Greek
words have generally done this. I should consider
it gross impiety to use a Latin name for a Greek
god.