By E. M. Berens
ISBN-10: 076614870X
ISBN-13: 9780766148703
The writer units ahead of the reader a life like photo of the deities of classical instances as they have been conceived and worshipped by way of the ancients themselves, and thereby to evoke within the minds of younger scholars a wish to turn into extra in detail familiar with the noble productions of classical antiquity. the purpose was once to render the legends, which shape the second one component of this paintings, an image of outdated Greek lifestyles; its customs, superstitions, and princely hospitalities, for which cause they're given at a little bit higher size than is common in works of this sort.
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