Volume 1

Studies of the Greek poets / by John Addington Symonds.

  • John Addington Symonds
Date:
1877-1879
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Studies of the Greek poets / by John Addington Symonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE Satiric Epigrams.—Lucillius.—Amatory Epigrams.—Meleager, Straton, Philodemus, Antipater, Rufinus, Paulus Silentiarius, Agathias, Plato.—Descriptive Epigrams 356 CHAPTER XII. THE GENIUS OF GREEK ART. Separation between the Greeks and us.—Criticism.—Nature.—The Olive.—Greek Sculpture.—Greek Sense of Beauty.—Greek Morality.—Greece, Rome, Renaissance, the Modern Spirit 412 APPENDIX. Sappho’s Hymn to Aphrodite.—Desdemona’s Death.—Theocritus : Idyll xxix , 439