Studies In Greek Scenery, Legend And History

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James George Frazer

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship. 8vo. 8s. 6d. net.

Totemism and Exogamy. A Treatise on Certain Early Forms of Superstition and Society. With Maps. 4 vols. 8vo. 50s. net.

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Essays of Joseph Addison. Chosen and edited, with a Preface and a few Notes, by Sir J. G. Frazer. 2 vols. Gl. 8vo. 10s. net.

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STUDIES

IN

GREEK SCENERY, LEGEND

AND HISTORY

SELECTED FROM HIS COMMENTARY ON

PAUSANIAS’ ‘DESCRIPTION OF GREECE’

BY

SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER

FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

AUTHOR OF ‘THE GOLDEN BOUGH’

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON

1917

First published under the title, “Pausanias and other Greek Sketches,” 1900

Reprinted 1917