The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day (1899)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co.; London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner · leaf 223
, which had become dear to the Greek mindthrough the tales of poets and the works of artists. The powers of evil which Hercules overcomes arerepresented as a lion, a dragon, a wild boar, harpy-like 204 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. birds, and a bull. In addition be captures the swift bindof Arcadia, be… … Perseus With the Head of the Decapitated Medusa. The soul of the latter is represented as a small figure leaving the body and still trying to retain the head. (Terra cotta from Melos. Baumeister, Dcnkmalcr dcs class. AlUrtums.) Tbe poet Peisander (wlio lived about 650 B. C.)wrote an apotbeosis of…
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