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 72
ted 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… … i6, The Cur-BEARER, Cnossus THE AEGAEAN CIVILIZATION scenes are depicted. It is just possible, too, that the Vaphiocups may represent a scene of bull-grappling {TavpoKaQwina)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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