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 (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 315
iesthe superstitious awe attaching to some ghoulish monstrosityor some formless stock or meteorite gave place to reverencefor the images of a Pheidian Zeus or Athene—reverence paidnot so much to the present deity as to the manifestation of thegrand, the serene, and the beautiful.^ 1 The testimony… … An Attic Hydria of the Middle Black-figured Period 218 THE AGE OF PEISISTRATUS The vital power which effected this development revealedits workings not only in sculpture but also in other creationsof Hellenic genius—in Greek literature, Greek thought, Greekmythology, and Greek theology, all of…
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