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THE HOME LIFE OF THE
ANCIENT GREEKS.

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THE HOME LIFE

OF THE

ANCIENT GREEKS

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF

PROF. H. BLÜMNER

BY

ALICE ZIMMERN
Late Scholar of Girton College, Cambridge


With Numerous Illustrations


NEW AND REVISED EDITION

CASSELL and COMPANY, Limited
LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE
1895
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.

The following pages do not claim to be an absolutely literal translationof Dr. Blümner’s text. Such slight alterations have been made as thedifferent and more concise character of the English language seemed todemand, assuming that, in a work of this character, the most faithfultranslation is that which clearly presents the author’s meaning in thedifferent dress of another language. In one or two cases I have venturedto make some slight alterations. Thus, on page 277, my translation ofthe passage from Lucian (Philopseudes 18) describing Myron’sDiscobolus differs slightly from Dr. Blümner’s, and, as a result, theinference drawn as to the original position of the head is alsodifferent. This interpretation is in accord with more recent criticism,and has the support of Dr. Murray, H

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