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GREEK STUDIES: A SERIES OF ESSAYS

By WALTER HORATIO PATER

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GREEK STUDIES: A SERIES OF ESSAYS WALTER HORATIO PATER

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GREEK STUDIES: A SERIES OF ESSAYS

WALTER PATER

London: Macmillan, 1910. (The Library Edition.)

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E-text Editor's Note

Preface by Charles Shadwell

A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew: 9-52

The Bacchanals of Euripides: 53-80

The Myth of Demeter and Persephone I. 81-112

The Myth of Demeter and Persephone II. 113-151