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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 224

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f 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 Hercules, called the Hciachy^which contributed much toward… … Perseus and Andromeda.fPicture of an ancient Amphora in Naples. (From Baumeister, D. d. cl. A., p. 1291.) *Xen., Mem., ii. i. Plato, Symp., 177 B. f Trendelenburg has discovared a passage commenting on this or a similar pic-ture in Achilles Tatius, and explains it as follows : Andromeda, adorned as…

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