iman : a -\Iahometan priest ; also spelt imam (chief

25. du temple de la Victoire : the temple of Wingless Victory on the Acropolis, built iu the lonic style and of Pentalic marble. A few reliefs of the beautiful balustrade of this temple are among the Elgin marbles in the British Muséum.

27. le Pandroséum : the Pandroseum, where the sacred olive grew, at the back of the western wall of the Erechtheum. 69. 9. Paros : one of the Cyclades, famous for its marble. du Pentélique : see note on Athens (p. 1 1, 16).

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60. 5. Ègine : an island S. of Atheus, in the gulf of the same

name.

Épidaurs : Ej^idaurus, in Argolis, vc&s fainous for its temple of Aesculapiiis.

12. le temple de Jupiter Olyrapien : au iœposing structure begun by Pisistratus on the bank of the Ilissus in honour of the Olympian Zens. Its dimensions when finished were 354 feet in length and 171 in breadth ; it was adomed with 120 columns of Pent^lic marble, 60 feet in height and 6 feet in diameter. The mins, consisting of sixteen colunms, most of which hâve an architrave, form one of the most impressive sights of Athens.

14. du Lycée : the Lyceum (luTceion) was originally a place near Athens noted for its shady wood and beautiful gardens, but this name is particularly appiied to its gymnasium, where Aristotle taught his philosophy.

le Stade : the Stadium at Athens could accommodate 40,000 spectators ; it was laid out by the orator Lycurgus, who also rebuilt the great théâtre of Dionysus.

17. la place de l'Académie : the grove of the hero Academus, where the ' divine Plato ' taught his philosophy and fo\mded his school, which has become famous under the name of the Amdemy.

61. 20. Délos : now called Delopulo or Mikra Dilos, an island in

the Archipelago, the sraallest of the Cyclades. Delos was the oldest place consecrated to the cuit of Apollo, who was boru hère, as was also his sister Artemis. On a hill of the island, Mount K}-nthos (Cynthius), stood a temple of Zens and Athena. On the W. slope one can still recognize the old théâtre, and below, near the shore, the remains of the great temple of Apollo, which wa^ built of Parian marble in the fourth century B.C. N. and NE. of this temple was the ancient town of Belos ; E. of the town are still remains of the gymnasium and stadium. 21. Œdipe : king of Thebes. and the hero of a legend which supplied subjects for some of the finest tragédies of Sophocles and Euripides. When Oedipus was told by the seer Tiresias that he himself had murdered his father and committed incest Avith his mother, he put out his own eyes. He wandered towards Attica, accompanied by his daughter Antigoue, and at Colonus, near Athens, the Eumenides charitably removed him from earth.

Philoctète : a famous archer, the friend and armour-bearer of Hercules, who left him his bow and poisoned arrows.

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As oue of the suitors of Helen he led seven ships against Troy, but being bitten by a snake (or wounded by his own arrows) he fell ill and was left on the island of Lemnos. An oracle having declared that Troy could not be taken ■without the arrows of Hercules, Philoctetes was brought to the Greek camp at Troy, where, healed by Aesculapius or his sons, the restored hero slew Paris and helped in the taking of Troy.

61. 22. Hécube : the second wife of Priam, king of Troy. During

the Trojan war she witnessed the destruction of ail her sons with the exception of Helenus, and at last saw her husband murdered before her eyes by Pyrrhus.

62. 10. Adrien : Hadrian was the adopted son of Trajan, whom he

succeeded as Eoman Emperor (117-138) ; he encouraged arts and letters. 32. Junon : Juno, the wife of Jupiter and daughter of Saturnus was the goddess of marriage. The poets represent her as haughty, jealous, and vindictive.

63. 2. Ménesthée : Menestheus, a legendary king of Athens, took

part in the siège of Troy.

6. Pourquoi, trop jeune encor ... : see Raciue's tragedy, Phèdre, ii. 5. The lines are addressed by Phèdre to Hippolyte.

10. Homère : supposed to hâve lived between 950 and 850 b.c.,

and generally looked upon as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.