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work from the visible objects of nature,which they try to reproduce. Not so the Greeks. Every one has what may be styled a mental imageor a memory picture of his familiar surroundings. Torepresent these mental images accurately was the aimof the Greeks. They endeavored to make real theirideas, and… … SOPHOKLES (Lateran) IN ITS RELATION TO NATURE 9 ancient Greeks. This is also true of the modern useof the word elimination, by which most writers mean an intentional omission or suppression of details.The absence of unnecessary details in Greek sculpturewas not due to conscious eclecticism, but to…
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