Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Vol. XXI. (Longmans and Co.
(Is. 6d. net.)—All the "studies" in this volume should have interested readers ; the most generally attractive will be Miss Hetty Goldman's thesis for the Eliot Norton Greek Fellow- ship, "The Oresteia of Aeschylus as Illustrated by Greek Vase Painting." All students of Aeschylus, indeed of the Greek tragedians, for it touches on the three, should read it. The Agamemnon, it is true, is not represented. The painter found more telling subjects in the offerings at the tomb or the scene in the Delphic temple. We cannot do more than mention the appearance of this admirable study.—We must be content with an equally brief notice of Cyzicus, by F. W. Hasluck (Cambridge University Press, 10s. net). It is one of the series of "Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Essays," and may be said to owe its origin to the School at Athens. Cyzicu.s, founded from Miletus early in the age of Greek colonisation, submitted to the growing power of Persia, and returned to its Greek allegiance after the Second Persian War. It became a member of the Delian Confederacy, paying nine talents as against the twelve of its neighbour Lampsacu.s. Its appearances in history are not of any great intrinsic interest, though they are significant of the changing fortunes of Greece. Its commereial importance was great ; Cyzicene staters were for a time an international coinage. All this, and much more, the reader will find fully illustrated in Mr. Hasluck's learned volume.
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