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Apotheosis and after life : three lectures on certain phases of art and religion in the Roman Empire (1915)

Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · London : Constable · leaf 184

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arly interesting asoffering to the spectator a triple vision of the dead: asspirits resident in the stele; as souls dwelling in thegreat snake which rears itself up behind the throne ; ^®and as actual human presences whose more majesticmien alone differentiates them from ordinary mortals.The scene…

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