The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 17. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1884 |
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... myth- ology . These texts form still our most exhaustive work on the Vedic age , and show better than any others the point from which the peculiar religious and political development of India started . Dr Muir was also the author of a ...
... myth- ology . These texts form still our most exhaustive work on the Vedic age , and show better than any others the point from which the peculiar religious and political development of India started . Dr Muir was also the author of a ...
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... myths ; and the study of ancient art he promoted by his Handbuch der Archäologie der Kunst ( 1830 ) , and by Denkmäler der alten Kunst ( 1832 ) , which he wrote in association with Österley . In 1840 appeared in England his History of ...
... myths ; and the study of ancient art he promoted by his Handbuch der Archäologie der Kunst ( 1830 ) , and by Denkmäler der alten Kunst ( 1832 ) , which he wrote in association with Österley . In 1840 appeared in England his History of ...
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... myths of Eros and Dionysus are especial favourites . Only five or six relate to purely Roman mythology . We have reason to think that some at least of the Pompeian pictures are copies , probably at third or fourth hand , from celebrated ...
... myths of Eros and Dionysus are especial favourites . Only five or six relate to purely Roman mythology . We have reason to think that some at least of the Pompeian pictures are copies , probably at third or fourth hand , from celebrated ...
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... myths , or for the music in our theatres ; but these had the speciality that figures of medieval chivalry , who were little less outside for the most part their music consists of the popularities general familiarity , long gave an ...
... myths , or for the music in our theatres ; but these had the speciality that figures of medieval chivalry , who were little less outside for the most part their music consists of the popularities general familiarity , long gave an ...
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... myths , similar to those which were common in Greece , and that the difference between mystic and exoteric rites lay chiefly in the accompaniments . Athenæus 4 says that the Mysteries were distinguished from the ordinary festivals by ...
... myths , similar to those which were common in Greece , and that the difference between mystic and exoteric rites lay chiefly in the accompaniments . Athenæus 4 says that the Mysteries were distinguished from the ordinary festivals by ...
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