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Title: The eastern nations and Greece
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: Boston New York : Ginn
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Fig. 128. TheNike,orVictory,ofSamothrace. (Louvre, Paris) Set up on the island of Samothraceby Demetrius Poliorcetes of Mace-donia in commemoration of a navalvictory over Ptolemy of Egypt in306 B.C.
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counterpart in literature inTheocritus (sect. 352). III. PAINTING330. Introductory. Not a single work of tlti-129. Aphrodite ofany great painter of Greek antiquity has sur- ^^°^ vived the accidents of time. Consequently Venus of^Miio (Louvre,our knowledge of Greek painting is derived in the main from vase paintings, from some interesting portraits(dating probably from the second century of our era), found ingraves in Lower Egypt (see Fig. 131), and from Roman wall-paintings and mosaics which were copies of celebrated paintings byGreek masters. In addition, however, to this material on which to §331) POLYGNOTUS 299 base an opinion we have the description by old writers of renownedpaintings, and their anecdotes of great painters. These classic storiesare always epigrams of criticism, and thus possess a technical as wellas a literary and historical value. 331. Polygnotus. Polygnotus (flourished 475-455 B.C.) has beencalled the Prometheus of painting, because he was the first to givefir

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