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GREEK STUDIES: A SERIES OF ESSAYS
By WALTER HORATIO PATER
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GREEK STUDIES: A SERIES OF ESSAYS WALTER HORATIO
PATER
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CONTENTS

GREEK STUDIES: A SERIES OF ESSAYS
WALTER PATER
London: Macmillan, 1910. (The Library Edition.)
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Preface by Charles Shadwell
A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew: 9-52
The Bacchanals of Euripides: 53-80
The Myth of Demeter and Persephone I. 81-112
The Myth of Demeter and Persephone II. 113-151
Hippolytus Veiled: A Study from Euripides: 152-186
The Beginnings of Greek Sculpture--I. The Heroic Age of Greek Art:
187-223
The Beginnings of Greek Sculpture--II. The Age of Graven Images:
224- 250
The Marbles of Aegina: 251-268
The Age of Athletic Prizemen: A Chapter in Greek Art: 269-end

PREFACE BY CHARLES L. SHADWELL
[1] THE present volume consists of a collection of essays by the late
Mr. Pater, all of which have already been given to the public in various
Magazines; and it is owing to the kindness of the several proprietors of
those Magazines that they can now be brought together in a collected
shape. It will, it is believed, be felt, that their value is considerably
enhanced by their appearance in a single volume, where they can throw
light upon one another, and exhibit by their connexion a more complete
view of the scope and purpose of Mr. Pater in dealing with the art and
literature of the ancient world.
The essays fall into two distinct groups, one dealing with the subjects
of Greek mythology and Greek poetry, the other with the history of
Greek sculpture and Greek architecture. But these two groups are not
wholly distinct; they mutually illustrate one another, and serve to
enforce Mr. Pater's conception of the essential [2] unity, in all its
many-sidedness, of the Greek character. The god understood as the
"spiritual form" of the things of nature is not only the key-note of the
"Study of Dionysus"* and "The Myth of Demeter and Persephone,"*
but reappears as contributing to the interpretation of the growth of
Greek sculpture.* Thus, though in the bibliography of his writings, the
two groups are separated by a considerable interval, there is no change
of view; he had already reached the centre of the problem, and, the
secret once gained, his mode of treatment of the different aspects of
Greek life and thought is permanent and consistent.
The essay on "The Myth of Demeter and