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Agatharchos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

J. Six
Affiliation:
Amsterdam

Extract

Though I can hardly hope to justify it, I must record (as having given the impulse to this study) my impression that it was not so much the art of his days, as the theories built thereon, which led Plato to such definitions of the skiagraphia as ‘essentially servile and devoid of reality and truth,’ as ‘not altogether true nor pure,’ as ‘unclear and misleading,’ and as ‘an inferior coupled to an inferior and producing inferior offspring.’

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1920

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