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 188
he dead areto live for the living it is in the verse of the poet.Henceforward, therefore, by the power of art, thedead cease to be terror-inspiring spirits and becomeideals for the guidance of mankind. In a sense,therefore, Homer is the creator of the art-tjpe which,in Attica at least, after the… … I. SiELi; OK Lysf.as.Atliens. 2. Stei.e of Archutos.Cuok Coll., Richmond. SYMBOLISM ON ROMAN TOMBSTONES 133 only as a memory in virtue of his past state, or of hispast actions. The long series of Athenian funerarystelae usually exhibits an episode from the past lifeof the deceased, or some scene…
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