Deseret Evening News | 1892-05-27 | Page 6 | The Eyes of Greeks' Statues

Tbo Itjri nrUvsfk Matars. rroftwftur Hmat Curtlus, tho faincii Greek scholar and nrcli.Tologit f tho University of lkrlln, announce) a fow months ago that ho had Uiacovcrcd that tho Greek stulptori always in ado tha ojes of men fuller tu.l roumlir than thoao of women. Tho nllogrU dlwovery vii couidcrcil JuiiortAiit, n It wu to Hevrd Hint It oM lo.iltu n lropr claulfic&tiou of many of tho nnhkntl- fled head of Greek statue. Tholiqxtt. however, actin ti Iiato bt-en prematuir denplto tho fact that Curtlus, who lint liecn cftllcd Tbo Jtodcru Orctk," fathered fa-thered them. Dr. flrccf, of Dorltn, m a recont lecture lec-ture delivered before tho Tnisslan AcuJ-emjr AcuJ-emjr of Hdcnce, declared thnt Curt Ian conclusion! wero wrong, as ho had found flat, narrow pywt Uuwo of women, aa cording to Curtlne In tho hond of Urcck etatu of men lit) had nlra measured plastic reprcavntatlurut of woiu tnwith Urge, full eyca. In nature, he nddetl, tbcro wu no differonco Utwwn tJo eye of men and women. Ho had examined receutly in IJerlln tho cyce of hundred iniinbers of each pox and had found that they wero tho satno in hapa, slio and form, lid thtu upheld tlie theories of Zinn nnd Sommerltui; that tho (Jrvck sculptor who garo n Kre ater fulineM to tho eyre of men than to tlKwoof women did not follow the condltlonj of nature. Now York Trlb-1 Trlb-1 UM0