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Show Ancient Greece. Threeflflhs of the Interest which the modern Greeks take In themselves i and that is much comes (join their worship of their assuiind ancestors, the Greeks of the historic period from i Homer to Honorlus. Every year wo i discover new things about this vastly ! Interesting people some broken bits I of art, some fragment of a literature which hn nine tenths perished, or ! sleeps In undiscovered crypts or Egyptian Egyp-tian dUKtheips or else some new theory of orlgn and pilgrimage, Invented In-vented and tlurldattd by Ingenious scholarship In Eng'and, France or Germany, Ger-many, and of late by excavators from America. Vase painting, for Instance, a Greek art coeval with Greek poetry older perchance, but we know nothing noth-ing accurately of the beginnings of either and more persistent even in its fragmuits than the later srt of the grand painters. Apelles, Polygnotus. Zenxls. an dthe rest, of whoe known work nothing remains. |