Author: W. A. Becker

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-02

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 9780332358598

Excerpt from Charicles or Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks We possess In these works compendious portraitures, tableaux vivants as it were, representing private life at Rome and Athens; and by looking on this picture and then on that, much knowledge may be derived alike in structive and suggestive. In the former we behold the favourite of Augustus, stern in his sense of honour; ma jestic and dignified even in his pleasures; fond of art, though his devotion for it, true to the imitative nature of his countrymen, is rather of a formal and acquired than inborn and imaginative cast. He is the type of his nation, who loved to adorn their palaces and villas with works of Greek art, as with so many pieces of elegant furniture; thus verifying the proverb, that the wolf's-milk which suckled their progenitors never became a real fountain of the muses. They were the great borrowers Of their day, adapting themselves to foreign habits and institutions with marvellous facility, doing Violence to nature, and trampling over obstacles physical and moral. How perfectly ah tipodes to them in all the phases of their character were the children of Daedal Greece! 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.