Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sachs, in his lecture last night treated of those vases which relate to the later books of the Iliad. The episode of the death of Sarpedon shows how the ancient conception differed from the mediaeval. Death among the Greeks was the twin brother of Sleep, and both were represented by the same art type of perfect repose. This idea was far more comforting to men than the skeleton of Christian art. In the vase-paintings, Death and Sleep together bear away the body with infinite tenderness, while the attitude of the deceased shows trust and resignation. On the earlier vases...
Harvard Classical Club. "Ancient Vate Paintings in their Relation to the Hiad." Part II. Idustia ed by Dr. Jutins Sachs Upper Boylston. 7.45 p. m. The public are invited...
...Sach's second lecture on "Ancient Vase Paintings," tonight...
Harvard Classical Club. "Ancient Vase-Paintings in their Relat on to the I lad." Part I, Illustrated by Dr. Julius Sachs Upper Boylston, 7.45 p. m. The public are invited...
...folks' concert will be held tonight in the First Church, in which a few Harvard men will assist. W. M. Richardson, '79, is training the chorus, which will appear in ancient costume...