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The Greek painters' art (1905)

Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 46

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dwhich conducts thetraveler from the museum to the sacred precinctof the Altis, we note the newly upturned soil of theplowed field, and one of our party, taking the plowfrom the surprised peasant, attempted to cut a fur-row with the crude implement which is merelya crooked stick sharpened at the… … Plowing SceneFrom a Greek vase painting 24 THE GREEK PAINTERS ART place for all Greece. Impressive in their solitude,imposing in their prostrate helplessness, lie thehoary columns of the old Temple of Hera, drumsand capitals from the Temple of Zeus, great stonesof wall, stylobate, and altar, carved…

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