The history of the devil and the idea of evil : from the earliest times to the present day (1900)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 225
s, 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 he captures the swift hindof Arcadia,… … 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, De?ikmaler des class. AUertums.^ The poet Peisander (who lived about 650 B. C.)wrote an apotheosis of…
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