Sexual life in ancient Greece : with thirty-two full-page plates

EDITORIAL NOTE

whole range of classical literature few indeed can be the authors to whom he did not turn in the hope of finding some illuminating dissertation or passage that will cast light on it and help him to show in its true perspective the share taken by sex in shaping the destinies of the Greeks through its reactions on their social, military, and religious life, and by means of what, to modern man, is the astonishing publicity accorded it and its problems on the stage, in literature, and in art. He threw his net wide, and he has quoted largely ; all his quotations are clearly “ labelled’, so that anyone may check them and acquaint himself with their context; and all are indexed, so that the student will be able to see almost at a glance which are the authors and which the works that provide much, little, or no material for the study of the subject.

It is a great pleasure to express our acknowledgments and thanks to the editors and publisher of the Loeb Classical Library for the free and generous use they have allowed us to make of their many volumes of texts and translations; some of the longer extracts of which we have availed ourselves—such, for instance, as Mr. J. M. Edmond’s beautiful translation of the XVIIIth Idyll of Theocritus—we have directly acknowledged, but we are further indebted to this series for many of the short translations from the Anthology and other sources. We would also thank Mr. Haines for his kind permission to use his translations of To Anactoria, the Hymn to Aphrodite, and other passages, from his Sappho: Her Poems and Fragments (the Broadway ‘Translations, Messrs. Geo. Routledge & Sons, Ltd.).

LAWRENCE H. Dawson.

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