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PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART
chap.
what they were, men raised to a higher level by achievement and
consecrated by death. In an art so ideal, and so much more
fond of the type than of the individual, such heroes as Heracles,
Fig. 14. —Apollo and Artemis in a marriage procession. Vase at Berlin.
Jason or Achilles would naturally make their way into scenes of
war or of achievement rather than contemporary men of every
day. Exactly the same holds of the Greek drama, which was
carefully raised above the level of ordinary life by the selection of
PRINCIPLES OF GREEK ART
chap.
what they were, men raised to a higher level by achievement and
consecrated by death. In an art so ideal, and so much more
fond of the type than of the individual, such heroes as Heracles,
Fig. 14. —Apollo and Artemis in a marriage procession. Vase at Berlin.
Jason or Achilles would naturally make their way into scenes of
war or of achievement rather than contemporary men of every
day. Exactly the same holds of the Greek drama, which was
carefully raised above the level of ordinary life by the selection of