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The message of greek art (1915)

Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York : Macmillan Co. · leaf 184

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nation of the Greeks, the sun was a god who drovehis chariot through the sky, illuminating the earth with theblaze of the chariot wheels, and descended beneath the sea torest until another dawn. Similarly, the moon was a goddesswho drove her paler chariot through the sky by night andrested beneath… … 168 The Message of Greek Art bounded by the sea on either side. Out of the sea at the left(Fig. 53), forward and upward, dash the horses of Helius, in thefullness of their heavenly beauty and strength, their powerfulforms scarce controlled by the arms of the god whose headjust emerges from the…

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