: 商君書 by Shang Yang BCE - China Politics and government To 221 B.C.; Political science Early works to 1800

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"Myths are told and songs are chanted Full of promptings and suggestions."

MYTHOLOGY IN MARBLE

LOUIE M. BELL

Educational Publishing Company Boston New York Chicago San Francisco

"All passes. Art alone Enduring stays to us; The bust outlasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius;

"Even the gods must go; Only the lofty rhyme Not countless years o'erthrow,-- Not long array of time.

"Paint, chisel, then, or write; But, that the work surpass, With the hard fashion fight,-- With the resisting mass."

--Austin Dobson.

Index

PREFACE

"They are coming back in might, Olympic gods, to claim their ancient right. Shall then the sacred majesty of old, The grace that holy was, the noble rage, Temper our strife, abate our greed for gold, Make fine our modern age?"

In this practical age it is not to be supposed that busy people in general have time to make a thorough study of mythologic science: but to share understandingly the love of sculpture now awakened in the public mind, and for a better appreciation of our galleries of casts, it is desirable to have at least a suggestive knowledge of the myths and legends which have inspired so many artists in the moulding of their statues, for--

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