The glory that was Greece : a survey of Hellenic culture and civilization (1915)
Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933, Hopper, R. J. (Robert John), 1910- · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 378
orous Northern strainwas beginning to succumb to the influence of a Southern climate,while the artistic temperament native to the South was re-asserting itself and disturbing the equilibrium between cleverand brave. But it may have been simply the working of somelaw of Nature that all arts pass… … THE FOURTH CENTURYthe fourth century some slackening of purpose, some loss ofideals, some tendency in the direction of prettiness and languor. But we must not yet begin to speak of degeneration. TheHermes of Praxiteles and the Republic of Plato are not worksof decadence. Some modern historians are…
Art, Greek
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