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Greek sculpture, its spirit and principles (1903)

Mach, Edmund von, 1870-1927 · Boston : Ginn · leaf 332

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sboth past and present. It is not an overstatement tosay that nobody is, or ever can be, an educated manwho has not come under the ennobling influence ofAt^iens. However we may look upon classical training,the man who does not get it in some form or otherlacks that quality which makes of him a man… … Hermes of Praxiteles(Olympia) i CHANGES IN GREECE 263 as is often done, as the result of the Peloponnesian war.Artistic activity was never suspended: the Erechtheionwas erected, and the caryatides used in lieu of columnsin its south porch; the Athena-Nike temple was builtand surrounded with its…

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