Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 352
early as the secondcentury B.C., by others about a hundred and fifty years earlier.1 When,from the time of Augustus, the adoption of this mode of decorationbecame general, the character of the favourite subjects betrayed theirHellenistic and Egyptian descent. The costumes, the landscapes, the flora… … Fig. 199. The Birth of the VirginDaphni, Attica. : mosaic of the eleventh century in the Monastery of (Hautes Etudes : G. Millet.) P. 397. Greek: we see Centaurs, Amazons, Argonauts, the stories of Perseus andTheseus, the Trojan Cycle, scenes from the Odyssey, the Battle of Issus, 1 Among examples…
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