The New York herald., 1922-05-21

pd1ntlng Slanuer showed the characters
of Ignorance, Suspicion, Envy, Deceit,
Remorse and other personifications. Luz
cien's description of it is said to have
inspired Botticelli, Durer and other ar
lists to similar works.
When Alexander's conquests were over
Apelles probably returned to Asia Minor,
where most of his celebrated oils were
found. He visited the painter Protogenes
at Rhodes and offered him a fabulous
sum for one Of the Rhodesians pictures.
He was kind in appreciation of his rivals,
though fully aware of his own elevation.
He admitted that Melanthius excelled him
in grouping; that Asclepiodorus sur
passed him in symmetry, and that had
Protogenes known when to stop painting
he would have been far more graceful
painter.
One day cobbler saw one of his paint
ings and described fault in one OF the
shoes of the figure. Apelles corrected the
error. But when the cobbler returned
and made other comments about other
parts of it Apelles grew angry at him and
told him cobbler should stick to his
last.
Mimnermus was the author Of hun.
dreds of odes. He Is credited with being
the first man to write of love in this form
of literary endeavor, and also is said
to have brought back the ode to its
former state of expressing retrospective
musing.
Nicander, physician, grammarian and I
poet, was born near by the city Of Colo
phon and spent his life there. He wrote
detailed treatises on poisons, and was for
centuries the highest authority on tho
cures for bites of animals.
These men-Lysimachus, Apelles, Nj
cander, Mimnermus-are ones known to
have lived there. The American arch
aeologists hope to find clews that will aid
the historians in making clearer the lives
not only of these ancient men but of
others who are thought to have lived
among them.
Just why Colophon was deserted may
be learned in the excavation work about
to be started. 1t is the supposition that
Lysimachus took most of its people with
,im to his new town of Ephesus. Another
presumption is that the warriors of the
latter city finally overcame the citizens
of the sparsely occupied Colophon and
then forced those who remained alive to
join them.
Maps will be made of the city during
the excavation work, and from these and
what the excavators find will be added
volumes to the archaeological knowledge
of American universities.
1t Is probable that new city will be
built on the site of this ancient town.
Certain it is that the Greeks will try to
rehabilitate it after so many centuries
during which 1t has lain under the dust
of ages. They are moving into Smyrna,
not far distant, at an amazing speed. They
are taking with them there American
y.
biles now fit around Smyrna and the
hinterland. With the evacuation of that
part of Asia Minor by the Turks, Ameri-
can machinery can be taken in. Farmers
now use chilled plows, having just thrown
aside the wooden plows of the time of
Homer. One tractor was seen in that
section before 1914, but 1t was seized and
burned by the Turks before 1t could be
propelled to the farm where 1t was to be
worked.
With Americans supervising and financ-
ing the excavation work to be done at
Colophon, the inflow of American traders
will be augmented. The Greeks are very
friendly to people and firms Of the United
States, and naturally will give these trad
ers as much business as possible. In
fact, fully one-half of the farmers going
into that section now have been resident
in this country and thus are using Ameri-
can farm methods.
Around about Colophon, the land is
fertile. It is attracting Greek agricul-
turists. Should the archaeologsts dis
cover under the ground the ruins of
city the Greeks naturally will gravitate
to that section, and it is easy to see that
another Colophon will be inhabited where
one has not existed for more than 1000
vaaro