New Chapters in Greek History Historical Results of Recent Excavations in Greec
New Chapters in Greek History Historical Results of Recent Excavations in Greec
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One can scarcely call the shield of Achilles a work of decaying art : but of course that is a poet's work of art, the like of which never really existed. Besides the shield, works of art are rarely described, and when they are it is with an * Mycenae, p. 237.
142 New Chapters in Greek History. [Chap. V.
exaggerated astonishment, which shews such things not to be common in Homeric days. Anything artistically good is either imported from Sidon, or else made by Hephaestus : that such things could ...be made by ordinary workmen seems scarcely to have entered into the Homeric mind. Would anyone who was accustomed to see brooches well engraved write in regard to the device of a brooch, " And all men marvelled at the workmanship, how, wrought as they were in gold, the hound was gazing on the fawn and strangling it, and the fawn was writhing with his feet and striving to flee. " Such a description even applied to a painting by Landseer would sound hyperbolic. Such passages seem clearly to shew that in Homeric times works of art were rare, and in most cases either imported from abroad or else handed down as heirlooms from past generations.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
One can scarcely call the shield of Achilles a work of decaying art : but of course that is a poet's work of art, the like of which never really existed. Besides the shield, works of art are rarely described, and when they are it is with an * Mycenae, p. 237.
142 New Chapters in Greek History. [Chap. V.
exaggerated astonishment, which shews such things not to be common in Homeric days. Anything artistically good is either imported from Sidon, or else made by Hephaestus : that such things could ...be made by ordinary workmen seems scarcely to have entered into the Homeric mind. Would anyone who was accustomed to see brooches well engraved write in regard to the device of a brooch, " And all men marvelled at the workmanship, how, wrought as they were in gold, the hound was gazing on the fawn and strangling it, and the fawn was writhing with his feet and striving to flee. " Such a description even applied to a painting by Landseer would sound hyperbolic. Such passages seem clearly to shew that in Homeric times works of art were rare, and in most cases either imported from abroad or else handed down as heirlooms from past generations.
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