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    The Greek-Speaking Population of Southern Italy
    Cambridge University Press (CUP) ; 1889
    In:  The Journal of Hellenic Studies Vol. 10 ( 1889-11), p. 11-42
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    In: The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 10 ( 1889-11), p. 11-42
    Abstract: It will probably be a surprise, even to readers of the Journal of Hellenic Studies , to learn that there are at the present day twenty thousand persons in the south of Italy who speak Greek as their native tongue. These people form two separate groups, composed of a number of villages or townships, one of which is found in the heel of Italy or Terra d'Otranto, the other in the toe of that country, towards the extremity of the modern Calabria, in the neighbourhood of Cape Spartivento, and about twenty miles to the south-east of Reggio. The language which they speak, as might well be supposed, is not ancient Greek; nor is it in any sense a lineal descendant of that which was spoken in the colonies of Magna Graecia; but, though it is essentially modern Greek, it differs considerably from the Romaic of Greece, and these differences are of such a nature, that it must have required the lapse of many centuries to produce them. There can be no doubt that at one time it was spoken over a much wider area than at present; indeed, within the memory of man it has died out, and has been superseded by Italian, in places where it had previously been in use. Any traditions which may have existed with regard to the origin of this people and the fortunes of their ancestors they have now entirely lost; and their history, as far as it can be discovered at all, must be reconstructed from casual notices in historical documents and from intimations contained in the language.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0075-4269 , 2041-4099
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    DOI: 10.2307/623584
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    Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
    Publication Date: 1889
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    III.—Had the People of Pre-historic Mycenae a Weight Standard?
    Cambridge University Press (CUP) ; 1889
    In:  The Journal of Hellenic Studies Vol. 10 ( 1889-11), p. 90-92
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    In: The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 10 ( 1889-11), p. 90-92
    Abstract: In a former paper in this Journal (Vol. viii.) it was maintained that the Greeks had a weight standard long before the introduction of coined money from Asia, the unit of which was the same as the Attic-Euboic system (130—135 grains Troy) of historical times, and that in the Homeric poems the gold Talanton and cow represented the same value, the unit of metal being adjusted to the more primitive unit of barter. The evidence then adduced was of a purely literary nature, as it was not in my power to appeal to any actually existing weights. I have since obtained some data of a concrete kind which, I think, lends some support to my former contention. Dr. Schliemann ( Mycenae and Tiryns , p. 354) found (in the tomb south of the Agora at Mycenae) ‘four spirals of thick quadrangular, and seven spirals of thick round gold wire, five plain gold rings, and a similar one of silver, of which a selection is represented under No. 529. ‘I remind (adds Dr. Schliemann) the reader that similar spirals and rings of thick gold wire occur in the wall paintings of the Egyptian tombs. They are supposed to have served as presents, or perhaps as a medium of exchange.’ These rings are now at Athens, and my friend Mr. E. A. Gardner of Gonville and Caius College, the Director of the British School at Athens, has kindly procured for me their weights. Before going further I wish it to be clearly understood that I do not assume the rings to be what is called ring-money , but I think that I am justified in assuming that they are ornaments probably made on a given weight.
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    ISSN: 0075-4269 , 2041-4099
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    DOI: 10.2307/623588
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    A Celtic Cult and Two Sites in Roman Galatia
    Cambridge University Press (CUP) ; 1910
    In:  The Journal of Hellenic Studies Vol. 30, No. 1 ( 1910), p. 163-167
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    In: The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 30, No. 1 ( 1910), p. 163-167
    Abstract: Eleven years ago I contributed to the Journal an account of exploration in Galatia, and in summarizing the evidence which it supplied as to the civilization of Galatia, I pointed out that the Celtic conquerors assimilated the culture of the conquered Phrygians without seriously modifying its character. And more particularly in the religious sphere I observed that the evidence indicated that the religion prevailing in the Imperial period was ‘purely Phrygian: there is no trace of any Celtic cult…The new settlers perforce adopted the native cultus: for it was always necessary to “know the manner of the god of the land” (2 Kings, xvii. 26). Doubtless they identified their gods with the Phrygian, and did not keep up any separate cult: otherwise it would be incredible that no trace of it should have remained.’ A similar view was expressed in the following year by Sir W. M. Ramsay. ‘Few traces,’ he says, ‘of the old Gaulish religion can be detected in Galatia. It would be difficult to mention any except the sacrifice of captives, which was practised as late as B.C. 160, and presumably the rites at Drynemeton. It is hardly probable that the Gaulish religion was wholly disused or forgotten in the last century B.C. But certainly almost all the references—unfortunately very few—to Galatic religion point to the rapid adoption of the ancient and impressive cult of Cybele… The Galatians may perhaps have modified to some degree the character of the Phrygian ritual by their own nature and customs, as both the Phryges and the Greeks did. But we have no evidence on this point.’ His survey ends with the observation that in the inscriptions of the Roman period no allusion is made to any religion except that of the old Phrygian gods and that of the Emperors.
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    ISSN: 0075-4269 , 2041-4099
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    DOI: 10.2307/624267
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    Publication Date: 1910
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    Paintings on the Amazon Sarcophagus of Corneto
    Cambridge University Press (CUP) ; 1883
    In:  The Journal of Hellenic Studies Vol. 4 ( 1883-11), p. 354-369
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    In: The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 4 ( 1883-11), p. 354-369
    Abstract: Few monuments of ancient art possess either a more obvious beauty and attraction, or a greater interest for the archæological student, than the sarcophagus painted with various scenes of an Amazonomachia, which was discovered in 1869 in a grave at a little distance from Corneto, the ancient Tarquinii, and was a few years afterwards acquired for the Egyptian and Etruscan Museum at Florence. Its date is probably not much after 300 B.C., and the pictures which adorn it, even if not the work of a Greek hand, offer us the best example we possess of the manner of Greek polychrome painting in that age. They have been already described by several highly competent writers, including Dr. Helbig and Otto Donner ( Bull. dell' Inst. 1869, p. 198 sq. ); the late Dr. Klügmann, who for years made representations of the Amazons in ancient art his especial study ( Ann. dell' Inst. 1873, p. 239 sq. ); Mr. Dennis ( Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria , 2nd ed., 1881, p. 96 sq. ); and Dr. Woermann (Woltmann and Woermann, Hist. of Painting , English ed., 1880, vol. i., p. 100). But hitherto no adequate illustrations of them have been published. The sketches in slightly shaded outline engraved, ( Mon dell' Inst. , vol. ix., pl. lx.), to accompany Dr. Klügmann's article above referred to, furnish, indeed, a useful key to the shape and dimensions of the sarcophagus, and to the arrangement and subject-matter of its pictures. But of the style of the work they give little notion, and of its colouring, from the nature of the case, none at all. Coloured facsimiles of some selected portions of these most interesting paintings are published for the first time with the present number of the Journal of Hellenic Studies (Pls. XXXVI., XXXVII., XXXVIII.).
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    DOI: 10.2307/623379
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    Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
    Publication Date: 1883
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