Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Home Life of the Ancient Greeks: Translated From the German of Prof. H. Blumner
The following pages do not claim to be an absolutely literal translation of Dr. Blumner's text. Such slight alterations have been made as the different and more concise character of the English language seemed to demand, assuming that, in a work of this character, the most faithful translation is that which clearly presents the authors meaning in the different dress of another language. In one or two cases I have ventured to make some slight alterations. Thus, on page 277, my translation of the passage from Lucian (Philopseudes 18) describing Myron's Discobolus differs slightly from Dr. Blumner's, and, as a result, the inference drawn as to the original position of the head is also different. This interpretation is in accord with more recent criticism, and has the support of Dr. Murray, Head of the Antiquities Department at the British Museum.
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