Greek Art and National Life (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Greek Art and National Life My best thanks are due to Sir Arthur Evans and to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press for their kind permission to use the illustrations of Cretan scripts and seals from Scm'pta Mined. My debt to Professor R. M. Burrows' Discoveries in Crete will be apparent to those who have read that admirable summary of the great work of Sir Arthur Evans, whose Scripta Minoa has of course been indispensable: and I acknowledge with grati tude the in¿uence of the late Andrew Lang in Homeric criticism. In my inquiry into the mean ing of Hellenic sculpture, I have followed a line of thought evolved during the years that I have devoted to lecturing upon the subject, and while I may be permitted to claim for it some originality, and to h0pe that it has some value, I willingly admit its faults to be my own. I date this preface from the same deep woodland upon whose ever-changing beauty I have drawn, in the pages that follow, in my endeavour to uphold the claim of England to her own peculiar realm in art, and to the friends who have given me the free dom of their goodly heritage I owe my thanks. 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.