Corinthe : on the isthmus of Corinth, which connects the

Peloponnesus ^dth the mainland. The ancient Corinthians showed little créative power in art in spite of their lavish expenditure for the adornment of their city.

9. rionie : a name given fir.-t to Attica and Achaia, and then

to that part of the seaboard of Asia Minor which was inhabited by lonian Greeks, opposite the islands of Samos and Chics.

15. Céfalonie : Cephalonia, the Homeric Samê or Samos, the largest of the seven lonian islands, lies opposite the entrance to the Gulf of Lepanto or Corinth.

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5. 15, 17. Leucate, Ithaque : two otber lonian islands of ancient

Greece ; the former is now called Santa ilaura, the latter is famous as the horae of Ulysses.

19. Zante : Zante or Zacynthus is one of the principal of the lonian islands, niue miles from the north-west coast of the Morea and eight south of Cephalonia. From Zante, which is called * the tiower of the Levant, ' corne large quantities of carrants.

26. l'Élide : Elis is part of the Peloi^onnesus, on the east coast. It was in Olympia, its chief town, which coutained many of the choicest treasures of Greek art, that the Olympic Games were celebrated every five years.

29. Modon : the ancient Methone in Messenia, one of the three peninsulas that project southward from the Peloponnesus.