Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · New York, E. P. Dutton & company · leaf 222
n to him, as on thefrieze of the Parthenon. It is striking how fewrepresentations in the Greek art of the fifth to thethird centuries are concerned to represent anotherworld—whether Heaven or Hell—how little theartistic imagination allowed itself to play roundthe unknown which by the Attic mind was… … 1% c 5 ■A SYMBOLISM ON ROMAN TOMBSTONES 157 art, but he was a native of Thasos, and the peopleby whom he was commissioned to execute the picturewere Cnidians, i.e. Graeco-Asiatics. Thasos, it maybe noted, produced in an exquisite reHef, now in themuseum of Constantinople (R.R., ii. 166, i), one…
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