Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 118
PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART 96 CHAP. what they were, men raised to a higher level by achievement and consecrated by death. In an art so ideal, and so much more fond of the type than of the individual, such heroes as Heracles, … Fig. 14. — Apollo and Artemis in a marriage procession. Vase at Berlin. Jason or Achilles would naturally make their way into scenes of war or of achievement rather than contemporary men of every day. Exactly the same holds of the Greek drama, which was carefully raised above the level of ordinary…
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