The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies And Conquests, From the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East: Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, And the Fine Arts 2
The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies And Conquests, From the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East: Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, And the Fine Arts 2
John Gillies
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3. •* Aristoph. Nubes, passhn. tj- Alexis apud Athenaeum^ 1. xiii. CHAP. 13. ANCIENT GREEGB. 109 terize the declining ages df Greece and Rome^ took root in Athens daring the administration of Pericles^ the most splendid and most prosperous in tiie Grecian annals. This paradox, for such it must appear, may I^ n tm t explained by considering the. singular conAinalion and balance of circumstances, which, in the time of that states* ^ndvice** man, gave every poison its antidote, and rendered iulv«n...tagei the partial evils already descrihed, only the thorn *J^tj^Sf ' that ever accompanies the rose* The Grecian his- tory of those times affords a more striking contrast than ev^ appeared in any other age or country, of wisdom and fcdlyy of magnanimity and meanness, of liberty and tyranny, of aim** plicity and refinement, of austerity and voluptuousnesa. The suhlime philosofdiy of Anaxagoiras and Socrates was accom^ panied as with a deadly shade, by the dark unprincipled captiousn^s of the sophists; the pathetic and moral strains of Sophocles and Euripides were parodied by the licentious buf- foonery of Aristophanes ; painting and sculpture, which, under geniuses of the first order, like Phidias, served as handmMds to religion and virtue,., degenerated under inferior artists into mean hirelings of vice and discKrder ; the modesly of Athenian matrons waa set off as by a foil, when compared with the dis* solut^ess of the school of Aspasia; and the simple frugalit]^ of manners, which commonly prevailed in private families, even of the first distinction^ was contrasted with the «xtrava* gant dissipation of public entertainments and festivals.
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