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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt:... Metapontum (1836), on the coins of the Satraps (1848), and on the coins and inscriptions of Cyprus (1851). He was the liberal patron of archaeological work at home and abroad, but, in all his varied interests, he ever returned to the art of ancient Greece as the ' shrine of beauty." He lavished his resources on Simart's restoration of the chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos. He was to France what the Earl of Arundel was to England, and he left all his vast collections of works of ancient art to the Museum in the Paris Library4. Charles Lenormant (1816--1881), the discoverer in 1860 of the fine relief of the divinities of Eleusis, was the author of the five volumes ofthe Trhor de niimismatique el de glypti/ue, and of the three of the lile des monuments ceramograftiiqties. He also produced a commentary on Plato's Cratylus (1861). He died during his travels in Greece, and was buried on the hill of Colonus'. His son Francois (1837--.....:.,," F. Lenormant 1883) was a versatile explorer in the most varied fields of archaeology, epigraphy, and numismatics. Among his principal publications were his 'archaeological researches at Eleusis' (1861), and his monograph on the sacred 'Eleusinian way' (1864). His earliest important work was his Essay on the Coins of the Ptolemies (1857). Among the most comprehensive of his articles in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionary were those on the Alphabet, and on Bacchus and Ceres. He produced numerous memoirs on Greek and Latin inscriptions, on works of ancient sculpture, and on numismatics. He took part in preparing seven volumes of masterpieces of ancient art, mainly from the Museum at Naples, and in producing highly popular works on Magna Graecia, and on Apulia, and Lucania. In conjunction with...