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This edition is an exact and complete reprint of the text, maps and plates of the original edition, each page being reduced in size one-fifth...
This edition is an exact and complete reprint of the text, maps and plates of the orlginal edition, each page being reduced in size one-fifth...
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...that the lines were in red. The date of manufacture can be determined with considerable accuracy by the form of the letters in the inscriptions. The subjects were taken mostly from the Homeric poems and also from other similar epics which are now lost. The artist seldom follows the text closely, often departing widely from it according to his fancy and his knowledge of the limitations of his art, and not from ignorance of the legends. The themes which most attracted the Greek artist were not those which fascinate us, and the treatment of an episode by different artists varied...
This edition is an exact and complete reprint of the text, maps and plates of the original edition, each page being reduced in size one-fifth...