A History of Greece, Volume 7J. Murray, 1850 |
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History of Greece: I. Legendary Greece. II. Grecian History to the ..., Volume 7 George Grote Volledige weergave - 1855 |
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Pagina 228 - The religious feeling of the Greeks considered the god to be planted or domiciliated where his statue stood, so that the companionship, sympathy, and guardianship of Hermes became associated with most of the manifestations of conjunct life at Athens, political, social, commercial, or gymnastic.
Pagina 480 - life, which blinded the Athenians to his great defects as a public man and to his still greater defects as a general. Mr. Grote remarks that the misplaced confidence of the Athenians in Nicias was the gravest error they ever committed; and the judgment of Thucydides respecting him, ' that he assuredly, among all Greeks of my time, least deserved to come to so extreme a pitch of ill-fortune, considering his exact performance of established duties to the divinity,' calls forth the following emphatic...
Pagina 228 - Hermae, one of the most peculiar marks of the city, were mutilated by unknown hands. Their characteristic features were knocked off or levelled, so that nothing was left except a mass of stone with no resemblance to humanity or deity. All were thus dealt with in the same way, save and except very few...