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Excerpt from La Mythologie: Dans l'Art Ancien Et Moderne Les Grecs ont donn leurs dieux la forme humaine et Phidias en a expliqu la raison en disant Si nous donnons aux dieux la forme humaine c'est parce que nous n'en connaissons pas de plus parfaite. Mais ce n est qu'apr s une lente laboration que l'art est parvenu fixer les types des dieux tels que nous les connaissons. A l' poque o sont n es les l gendes multiples qui composent la mythologie, on se conteh tait de fabriquer des idoles grossi res, dont les vases de style archa que nous offrent fr quemment l'image (fig. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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