Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 112
PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART 90 CHAP. that Apollo signified for the whole race purification from guilt and the voice of higher wisdom which spoke in the oracles, and that the common paternity of Zeus gave to every one a standing of diginity in face of the unforeseen and scarcely com- prehensible… … Fig. 11. — Artemis ; relief from Olympia. The essential difference between the religious art of the Oriental nations, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, and Ilittites on the one hand, and that of the Greeks on the other was that, while the representations of the Gods in Oriental art were symbolic,…
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