Works
His best-known work is his History of Greece (1857-1867). It presented in an attractive style what were then the latest results of scholarly research, but it was criticized as wanting in erudition. It is now superseded. His other writings are chiefly archaeological. The most important are:
- Die Akropolis von Athen (1844)
- Naxos (1846)
- Peloponnesos, eine historisch-geographische Beschreibung der Halbinsel (1851)
- Olympia (1852)
- Die Ionier vor der ionischen Wanderung (1855)
- Attische Studien (1862-1865)
- Ephesos (1874)
- Die Ausgrabungen zu Olympia (1877, etc.)
- Olympia und Umgegend (edited by Curtius and F Adler, 1882)
- Olympia. Die Ergebnisse der von dem deutschen Reich veranstalteten Ausgrabung (with F Adler, 1890-1898)
- Die Stadtgeschichte von Athen (1891)
- Gesammelte Abhandlungen (1894)
His collected speeches and lectures were published under the title of Altertum und Gegenwart (5th ed., 1903 foll.), to which a third volume was added under the title of Unter drei Kaisern (2nd ed., 1895).
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