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...MONDAY.Semitic Seminary. Reader: Professor Lyon. Subject: Materials for the construction of Assyrian history, with references to recent books. 7 Lowell street...
...ASSYRIAN READINGS.On successive Tuesday evenings, beginning March 8, Professor Lyon will give in Upper Boylston four illustrated public lectures on the following subjects...
...story of Hercules is but a transposition of an Assyrianmyth. From the earliest time to the decline of the Assyrian empire, the valley of the Euphrates was the centre of art; its influence can be traced in Italian tombs, Greek bas-reliefs, and the various works of art of Phoenecia, Egypt, and other countries of the East...
...direct evidence can be found that Assyrian art was affected by, or itself affected the art of the Elamities, so little is known of the works of this people. Most scholars are agreed, however, that these two peoples did effect each other, though they are, as yet, unable to trace any influence of the art of the one in that of the other...
...most striking influence of Assyrian as well as Egyptian art can be traced in the archaic sculpture and bas-reliefs of Greece. Greek vases have been found, the figures on which are known to have been copied directly from Egyptian monuments, and the famous Doric Column is but a development of a form common in Assyrian architecture. It was not in the form alone that foreign influence is traced in Greek art; many of the ideas one derived from the Assyrian and Egyptian mythology...