Grecian Antiquity Lectures
Scope and Contents
Includes a leaf of notes on "Sacred Games" of the Greeks; "Theatre of the Greeks"; "The Greek Year"; and "The Olympic era." There are also several numbered lectures: Lecture I. "Origin of Grecian states"; Lecture IV: "Of sacred places" (each 2 leaves); Lecture VII. "Of Sacred Persons" (2 leaves: leave 1 on sacred functions: leaf 2 on oracles); Lecture IX 1 (pages 27-28) on sacrifices; "Lecture 9 continued" (pages 29-32); and "Lecture X. Purification" (pages 32-34). Also in the folder is a lecture on omens, divination, and festivals: [Leaf 1] (pages "61-62") begins "bomboi ringing in the ears": ends in middle of p 62. [Leaves 2-3] contains a headless continuous text on Greek festivals (sections [22]-28); [Leaf 2] begins "boughs hung with grapes." Text thereafter continuous, ending in middle of final page with "...youth Hyacinthus."
Physical Description
14 stray leaves, some loose and some attached.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository