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Hercules and the Cretan bul, metope from the Temple of Zeus, Olympia

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Description: Hercules and the Cretan bul, metope from the Temple of Zeus, Olympia
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Description: Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome
The Iliad is a celebration of war that inaugurates the distinctive military tradition within Greek culture. Hesiod’s Works and Days is a poetic treatise on agriculture that marks in a more business-like way the launch of the other essentially Greek tradition, that of economically productive competition. If Strife on the battlefield is an unpleasant necessity, Strife in the fields and the marketplace is beneficial only in its stimulating effect...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.57-104
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00031.006

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