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The Second Volume of Joanne's Guide to Guide-Joanne: Grèce, Vol. II: Grèce continentale et îes. Paris: Hachette, 1891.

H. F. Tozer

The Classical Review / Volume 6 / Issue 1-2 / February 1892, pp 53 - 54 DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X00184641, Published online: 27 October 2009

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Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/CAR, IP address: 128.122.253.228 on 04 May 2015 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW. 53 addition. In No. 246, line 60, I cannot ii. 52. They are well edited in the Arch. help thinking the reading to be TT)V imftiXtuiv Epigr. Mittheilungen aus dem Oesterr. 1884, Trovj&a/jLevoyv TU>V aTparrr/Siv, not iropKra/j-eixav. pp. 95 foil. ; but their historical importance The restoration given of line 1 of No. 30 in- and curious interest are such, that one volves a bad false quantity. In the discus- wishes they had been printed by way of an sion of the military year on p. 14, reference appendix to this volume. Two plans, one should have been made to Sir Charles of the town of Pergamon and the other of Newton's note on No. 343 of the British the Acropolis, assist the reader, who should Museum Inscriptions, part ii. (which is not a not fail to refer also to the delightful essay Rhodian, but a Coan decree). The editor of Ernst Curtius in his Beitrage zur Geschichle has twice to refer to the remarkable docu- und Topographic Kleinasiens (p. 45, Perga- ments from Pessinus (pp. 109, 167), which mon). 7 are discussed by Mommsen in his Rom. Gesch. E. L. HICKS.

THE SECOND VOLUME OF JOANNE'S GUIDE TO GREECE.

Guide-Joanne: Grece, Vol. II.: Grece conti- represented in the previous edition, which nentale et Ues. Paris : Hachette, 1891. was superintended by Dr. Emile Isambert. The present volume, like the first part in which Athens was described, is edited by M. WITH the publication of the second volume Haussoullier; but, in order to ensure com- of this Guide—the former part, which treats pleteness in his work, the editor has obtained of Athens and its environs, was noticed in for special sections the assistance of other the Classical Review in 1889—the cycle of members of the Ecole francaise, who have Handbooks of Greece, English, German, been engaged in excavation or other forms and French, is completed. All of these are of research in various parts of the country. excellent, and, if we were required to decide Of these, M. Monceaux has undertaken between them, we should find it difficult to Thessaly, M. Lechat the Ionian Islands, and say which is the best; but each has a M. Fougeres the Peloponnese, Delos, and peculiar merit of its own. Murray from the Pindus range ; while the routes in its fulness of detail and its readable style are contributed by the Abbe Batiff ol, who is is the most genial companion; Baedeker well known for his studies in the Greek is distinguished by its compactness of MSS. of South Italy, and whose ardour in arrangement and the clearness of its maps, the pursuit of these has carried him to the as well as its scientific accuracy ; while further side of the Adriatic. As an instance Joanne contains the latest information, of the advantage which this Guide possesses which has been carefully verified on the in consequence of .its being the most recently spot. As regards the extent of country published, we may mention the account given which they include in their survey, the on p. 471 of the cave of Zeus, the centre of French handbook occupies an intermediate so many ancient legends, which was dis- position between the other two; for while covered in the higher regions of the Cretan Baedeker confines itself strictly to the Ida in 1884, while excavations in its existing , and in treating of neighbourhood, which were undertaken in this ignores the Cyclades with the exception the year following, brought to light numerous of Syra, Delos, and Myconos, Joanne votive offerings and other objects of interest. introduces Crete and Epirus, as being In so meritorious a handbook it is difficult countries closely allied with Greece in their to select any one portion as deserving especial history, language" and nationality, and commendation, but perhaps the parts which Murray extends its limits still more widely, attract us most are those which describe the and gives an account of southern and outlying districts of northern Greece—• central Albania, of western Macedonia, and , Epirus and Thessaly. The of the monasteries of Mount Athos. These account of the last-named country comprises districts, we may hope, will be included in a a careful notice of the monasteries of new Guide-Joanne of European Turkey, Meteora, with a plan of the extraordinary which will thus, in conjunction with the group of rocky pinnacles on which those present work, cover the same ground as was buildings are perched : and also—what is THE CLASSICAL REVIEW. not to be found in other handbooks—-a map villages are met with at frequent intervals of the battle-field of Pharsalia, which, like along that chain of mountains—and he the one just mentioned, is derived from should be prepared to bivouac in the open Heuzey's Mission de Macedoine. It may be air by night, in the neighbourhood of a worth mentioning in this connexion, for the wood fire, for which the forests supply ample benefit of the adventurous traveller, that materials. He will be sufficiently repaid by Mount Ossa has not yet, like its neighbours the beauty of the scenery, and, as he wil. Olympus and Pelion, been ascended, though traverse the pass of Gomphi, he will have it does not seem to present any difficulty, the opportunity of tracing the route followed and ought from its position to command an by the Roman consul Flamininus, by exceptionally fine panorama. It is also Quintus Marcius Philippus, and by other consoling to think, in these days of advan- commanders on other occasions. To the cing roads and railways, that there are still majority of scholars, no doubt, especially on parts of Greece in which it is possible to a first visit, the most famous sites, and the rough it for several days together. From scenes of archaeological discovery, will prove this point of view M. Fougeres particularly more attractive; but Greece is a country recommends the route from to Trikkala which has a charm to offer to every class of —in other words, from the Ambracian gulf visitors, and no better advice can be given to the north-west of Thessaly—through the to one who travels there than that which is upland valleys of the Pindus range. In suggested in the preface to this book—that order to accomplish this, the tourist should he should follow his own tastes, and form secure the services of a Wallach carrier— his own plan. ' Plus un voyage est per- one of that race, in whose hands is most of sonnel, plus il laisse de souvenirs.' the transport of these parts, and whose H. F. TOZEB.

HOFFMANN ON THE GREEK DIALECTS.

Die Griechischen Dialekte in ihrem historisclvenattempt being made to reconstruct the Zusammenliange, mit den wichtigsten ihrer larger units of dialect groups, and so to Quellen dargestellt, von DB. OTTO HOFF- determine what was original to the group, MANN. Erster Band. Der siid-achdisohe and what has been the result of special Dialekt. Mit einer Tafel. Gottingen, development within the individual dialect. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht's Verlag. It is to meet this need that Hoffmann aims 1891. 8 Mk. in the work now begun, the first volume of which lies before us. This volume is en- THE appearance of the initial volume of titled Tlie South Ac/iaean Dialect, by which another exhaustive work on the Greek is meant South Aeolic in the wider and dialects, before Meister's revision of Ahrens looser sense of Aeolic—the sense in which is half completed, will doubtless occasion it was employed by Ahrens. Practically surprise to many scholars, especially to those the Arcadian and Cyprian are the only who have not closely followed the recent representatives of this group. The name symptoms of rivalry in this department of Achaean is chosen in preference to Aeolic, classical studies. The reasons which have partly in order to reserve the latter desig- impelled the author to inaugurate the pre- nation for the dialect of Lesbos (whence sent undertaking are clearly stated by him the literary Aeolic), partly because of the in his preface. He criticises Meister's work evidence—amounting to strong probability as defective in both plan and execution, re- —that the dialect group in question was, peating in this connexion the substance of before the Dorian invasion, the speech of his elaborate review of Meister's second the southern or Peloponnesian division of volume, which appeared in the Gottingsche the 'A^atot. Corresponding to the South Gelehrte Anzeigeniov 1889, p. 873 ff. Achaean group Hoffmann sets up a North The fundamental defect of Meister's Achaean group, including the Boeotian, method is held by Hoffmann to be his Thessalia'n and Aeolic (Lesbian), which are failure to observe the historical connexion to form the subject of his second volume. of the different dialects. Each is treated Similarly he hints at his future treatment of separately, as an independent unit, no the Doric dialects. He will make the