From: Durant, Will. The Life of Greece. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1939 -- Text
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1. Plato, Works, Jowett tr.; Phaedo. 109.
2. Semple, Ellen, Geography of the Mediterranean Region, N.Y., 1931, 99, 507.
3. Evans, Sir Arthur, Palace of Minos, London, 1921f, I, 20.
4. Homer, Odyssey, tr. A.T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, London, 1927, xix, 172-7.
5. Aristotle, Politics, 1271b.
6. Ludwig, Emil, Schliemann, Boston, 1931, 264-5; Glotz, G., Aegean Civilization, N.Y., 1925, 14; Cambridge Ancient History [hereafter referred to as CAH], N. Y., 1924f, I, 138.
7. Evans, I, 13; Hall, H.R., Civilization of Greece in the Bronze Age, N.Y., 1927, 24; Glotz, 30-1, 67, 348; CAH, I, 589-90.
8. Evans, I, 26.
9. Ibid., I, 27; Glotz, 38, 40; CAH, I, 597-8.
10. Glotz, 60-4; Baikie, Jas., Sea-Kings of Crete, London, 1926, 212-3.
11. Hall, 27; Glotz, 68-73.
12. Kûhler, Carl, History of Costume, N.Y., 1928, frontispiece; Evans, III, 49.
13. CAH, I, 596; Glotz, 65-6, 75-8, 311, and fig. 6.
14. Cf. Evans, III, 227.
19. Glotz, 147-8; CAH, II, 437.
20. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Everyman Library, I, 1.4; cf. Herodotus, History, tr. Rawlinson, London, 1862, vii, 170, and Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, v, 78.
21. Strabo, Geography, Loeb Library, x, 4.8; GLotz, 149; Evans, I, 2, IV, p. xxii; CAH, II, 442; Homer, Odyssey, xi, 568-70.
22. Ibid., iii, 296.
23. Glotz, 139-42, 173-4; Baikie, 120, 129-31.
24. Evans, I, facing 305, III, 13f; CAH, I, 591, 605, II, 432; Glotz, 106-9, 163-4; Baikie, 97.
25. Evans, I, facing 472; Glotz, 169-70, 293.
26. Evans, III, 213; Hall, 15; Glotz, 294-6, 312-3.
27. Evans, I, 15.
28. Ibid., 151; Glotz, 229, 237-41, 248-9, 255; Farnell, L. R., Greece and Babylon, Edinburgh, 1911, 228; Nilsson, M. P., History of Greek Religion, Oxford, 1925, 13, questions any worship of the bull in Crete.
29. Glotz, 146, 244-7; Evans, IV, 468-9.
30. Ibid.; Glotz, 252-4.
31. Ibid., 231-8, 265-70, 273-4; Farnell, 125; Reinach, S., Orpheus, N.Y., 1930, 83; Nilsson, 13, 16; CAH, II, 444-5.
32. Mason, W.A., History of the Art of Writing, N.Y., 1920, 315-23, 331; Evans, I, 15, 124f, IV, xx, 959; Glotz, 150, 196, 371-7, 381-7; Encyclopaedia Britannica, 14th ed., I, 213; CAH, II, 437; Whibley, L., Companion to Greek Studies, Cambridge U.P., 1916, 26.
33. Glotz, 165, 388; Baikie, 238.
34. Homer, Iliad, xviii, 590.
35. Glotz, 174, 321.
36. Evans, I, 342-4; Evans in Baikie, 71; Reinach, 82; Pliny, Natural History, London, 1855, xxxvi, 19; Glotz, 108.
37. Hall, 102.
38. Evans, I, 142, III, 252-3; Burrows, R. M., in Baikie, 99, and Semple, 570.
39. Evans, III, 116-22.
40. In Baikie, 129.
40a. Evans, Sir Arthur, "The Minoan and Mycenaean Element in Hellenic Life," Journal of Hellenic Studies, XXXII [1912], 277f; Hall, 27.
41. Evans, Palace of Minos, I, 17.
42. Ibid., 16-7; Smith, Human History, 378-90; Hall, 25; Glotz, 191-3, 209; Spengler, Oswald, Decline of the West, N.Y., 1926-8, II, 88.
43. Strabo, xiv, 2.27; Evans, "Minoan and Mycenaean Element," 283.
44. Herodotus. vii. 170; CAH, II, 475; Smith, G.E., 398.
45. Baedeker, K., Greece, Leipzig, 1909, 417.
46. CAH, I, 442-3.
47. Himes, Norman, Medical History of Contraception, Baltimore, 1936, 187.
48. Grote, G., History of Greece, Everyman Library, I, 190; Frazer, Sir Jas., Dying God, N.Y., 1935, 71.
49. Diodorus, iv, 76.
50. Ibid., 79; Ovid, Metamorphoses, Loeb Library, viii, 181f.
51. Pausanias, Description of Greece, London, 1886, ix, 40.
52. Plutarch, Lives, "Theseus"; Homer, Odyssey, xi, 321-5.
53. E.g., Polybius, Histories, Loeb Library, vi, 45.
54. Strabo, x, 4.16-22.
[Durant, Will. The Life of Greece. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1939. Aegean Prelude, pp. 3-23.]
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