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Title: The palaces of Crete and their builders
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Mosso, A. (Angelo), 1846-1910
Subjects: Palaces
Publisher: London, Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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pid rotatorymotion could explain the fact that her curls are floating out intothe air. Her little short-sleeved jacket is made of yellow stuff,embroidered with a simple geometric design in blue and red, Athin, tight-fitting vest covers her chest. Her right arm isextended. The Mycenaean ladies are charming. They have not theGreek nose. Their eyes are set slightly oblique, as is seen laterin the statues of the Acropolis of Athens, and especially inEtruscan art. This pretty slope of the eye seems to have pleasedthe Cretan artists. It exaggerates a form of eye which is rare,although it occurs in women even at the present time. IV. When Odysseus goes on an embassy in the name ofAgamemnon to bring Achilles to terms, he finds him playingthe lyre. Apollo accompanies his own song on the lyre. Wedo not know what this instrument was like, but we certainlyought now to consider its history as legendary. Terpander is supposed to have been the inventor of the lyre Evans, Knossos Excav., p. 55, igoz.
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THE THEATRE AND MUSIC 1^7 with seven strings, and it is known that in 676 B.C. he was victorin a competition at Sparta. He presented himself with a lyre ofseven strings, but it was ruled that he must cut off three for thesake of uniformity with the other competitors. Terpander wascelebrated for having introduced new rhythms into poetry, andthe reception given by the Spartans to Lesbian music was soenthusiastic that it became proverbial. The records of pre-cedence in this festival read : First the Lesbian singer, andafter him the others. i

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