Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . outdistanced by their aptpupils, the traces of Phoenician influence remain in Greek architecture, andmore particularly in Greek cults, down to the latest times. Apart from thedirect bearings of the excavations conducted in various parts of Greece uponthe development of Greek art, the most importa
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . outdistanced by their aptpupils, the traces of Phoenician influence remain in Greek architecture, andmore particularly in Greek cults, down to the latest times. Apart from thedirect bearings of the excavations conducted in various parts of Greece uponthe development of Greek art, the most important results of the work consistin the vast increase of material for Greek history, which is now beingrewritten on the basis of the many thousands of inscriptions that have beenfound in the great centres of ancient Greece. As the work of excavationcontinues, each year 1 (rings its quota of new facts, and it is safe to predict THE RECORDS OF THE PAST 239 that the recovery of ancient Greece will be noted in future ages as one of themost notable achievements of the nineteenth century. Phoenician Ruins. —With Egypt, Babylonia, and Greece we are still farfrom having exhausted the field covered by archaeology in this century. At,Cyprus much has been done by Lohr, Cesnola, and Ohnefalsch-Richter. The. 2 S2 6S3 < £ cities of Cyprus are interesting as forming a meeting-ground for such variouscivilizations as Phoenician, Egyptian. Proto-Grecian, and to a limited extentBabylono-Assyrian. The result is a curious mixture of art and of equalljstrange syncretism in religious rites. It is one of the disappointments oischolars that we as yet know so little of the Phoenicians who played such animportant role in history. The traces of this people of wanderers and 240 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY merchants have been found in tombs and votive inscriptions throughout thelands bordering on the Mediterranean, in Northern Africa, in Southern Spain,in Sicily, Malta, Asia Minor, Cyprus,
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