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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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of Octavia, in Rome, in the seventeenthcentury. It received its name from being preserved for a while in the MediciPalace at Rome, whence it was carried to Florence by Cosmo III., about 1680.The figure is nude, four feet eleven and one-half inches high, without theplinth, and has long been held as the perfection of form in woman. The sculp-tor was Cleomenes, the Athenian, who lived about B.C. 200. The exquisite Venus of Milo, now in the Louvre at Paris, is so named be-cause it was found in the island of Milo or Melos in the Archipelago. AsGreece passed into the hands of the Romans, the finest Greek treasures wereconveyed to Rome, where in time a new school arose. The many victories ofthe imperial empire brought thousands of the works of art to Rome, and yet sovast was the number in Greece that the temples and public buildings werecrowded with statues and paintings as late as the second century of the Chris-tian era. Grecian literature, which touched perfection with the master minds of
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Greece—Later Literature 269 Athens, lost much of its splendor after the death of Alexander. Alexandriahad become not only the emporium of commerce, but the principal seat oflearning, and flourished under the munificence of the first Ptolemies. Nobleand extensive libraries were founded, and literature was cultivated by gram-marians and critics. One of the greatest of these scholars was Aristophanes,chief librarian at Alexandria under the Second and third Ptolemies, who estab-lished a school of grammar and criticism. He is credited with the inventionof the Greek accents, while Aristarchus, his pupil, was the editor of theHomeric poems as we now possess them. The greatest dramatist of these times was the Athenian Menander (b.c.342-292), who has been called the chief of the New Comedy. Of coursetragedy would have been little welcomed in his degenerate days. So, while hisplays are full of a deep knowledge of life, they are solely comedy, and all turnupon the passion of love. Two of the m

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