Myths of Greece and Rome: illustrated with fine art classics paintings

All men in virtue of their humanity are image-makers but in some the image is clear and vivid in others dull lifeless wavering. The Greeks were the supreme ikonists the greatest image-makers the world has ever seen and therefore their mythology lives on to-day. The genius of Rome was not for ikonism; their mythology save when they borrow from the Greeks is negligible. They worshipped not gods not dei but powers numina. These numina were only dim images of activities; they never attained to personality they had no attributes no life histories; in a word no mythology. J. HarrisonWritten by one of the most prominent classicists of the era this book illustrated with fine art classics paintings is considered as one of the finest mythology text of all time.