Ancient Greece : a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1915)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · London : G. G. Harrap · leaf 66
riated animal or catching it by the horns and turninga somersault, or vaulting, over its back. The bull figureslargely in Minoan art. As will be seen later, the animalwas intimately connected with the old Cretan religion, afact which forms a solid point of truth in the legendsof Theseus and the… … 16. The Cup-bkarkr, Cxossus THE AEGAEAN CIVILIZATION scenec are depicted. It is just possible, too, that the Vaphiocups may represent a scene of bull-grappHng {TavpoKaOdipia)by athletes. The Minoan ladies are pictured (as we find also in Egyptianart and on early Greek vases) with a skin of chalky…
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