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PREFACE.
The object of the present work is to try to call more
general attention to the results of recent excavation in
Greek lands. This object I have tried to express in the
title chosen: it will of course be understood that the
New Chapters are not the chapters of this book, but
the chapters which have been opened to us at Mycenae,
at Olympia, and in the other scenes of recent researches.
The interest of these researches is many-sided: some
people will be attracted by their mythologic, some by
their artistic results, some by their bearing on ancient
life and manners, and so forth. On their artistic aspects
I have scarcely touched, this book being not primarily
concerned with art. My endeavour has been to set forth
briefly, and, if possible, in a way tending to interest all
Phil-hellenes, the gains which the excavations of the
last twenty years have brought us in regard to our
knowledge of Greek history, using the word history in
the widest sense, as covering not only political events,
but all sides of the activity of a nation.
About half of the matter in this work has been printed
before. The greater part of Chapters IV., VI., VII.,
VIII., IX., XV. has appeared in the Quarterly Review,
The object of the present work is to try to call more
general attention to the results of recent excavation in
Greek lands. This object I have tried to express in the
title chosen: it will of course be understood that the
New Chapters are not the chapters of this book, but
the chapters which have been opened to us at Mycenae,
at Olympia, and in the other scenes of recent researches.
The interest of these researches is many-sided: some
people will be attracted by their mythologic, some by
their artistic results, some by their bearing on ancient
life and manners, and so forth. On their artistic aspects
I have scarcely touched, this book being not primarily
concerned with art. My endeavour has been to set forth
briefly, and, if possible, in a way tending to interest all
Phil-hellenes, the gains which the excavations of the
last twenty years have brought us in regard to our
knowledge of Greek history, using the word history in
the widest sense, as covering not only political events,
but all sides of the activity of a nation.
About half of the matter in this work has been printed
before. The greater part of Chapters IV., VI., VII.,
VIII., IX., XV. has appeared in the Quarterly Review,