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History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1905)

Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885. History of ancient pottery · London, J. Murray · leaf 502

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e vase-paintings up to this point throw on the literary traditionspreserved for us, chiefly by Pliny, in regard to early painting.There is, perhaps, no subject which that writer has treatedwith greater vagueness ; and we are forced to the conclusionthat he really knew nothing about it, and did not… … EARLY GREEK PAINTERS 395 borrowed.^ Still, it may fairh- be supposed that the names hementions are those of real persons, even if his account of theirachievements is vague or imaginary. There are also a fewstray items of information given b\- Aristotle, Aelian, Strabo,and Athenagoras. Plin\ -…

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