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 366 HISTORY OF ART IN ANTIQUITY. of a road somewhere in Lycia ; could anything be found more closely resembling the granaries that meet the eye of the tourist in Savoy, as he makes his way up the slopes of Aravis (Fig. 259)? Social conditions must undergo profound transformation, in order to effect definite change in rural districts, where the tendency is to remain what the surroundings and natural resources of the soil have made them at the outset. Take the Swiss village not, of course, one kept up by visitors, like Interlacken, which is no more FIG. 260. Tomb at Hoiran. BENNDORF, Reisen, torn. i. Fig. 24. than a number of hotels, but the real typical village, lost among the hills and you will find that houses there are identical with those that obtained in the day of Ariovist. If this be true as regards Europe, it must surely apply with greater force to Lycia, where villages have, in all likelihood, not much changed in aspect since the fabulous age of Glaucus and Sarpedon ; with this notable difference, that when all the country was flourishing and more densely populated, the houses of the peasantry were doubtless more spacious, and built with greater care. As a rule, rock-cut tombs reproduce but a front view of the house which served them as model. Sometimes imitation of