double-bodied and single-headed birds, monsters, and sphinxes. We engrave (Fig. 15) three Greek gems from the islands as examples of savagery in early Greek art. In the oblong gem the archers are rather below the Red Indian standard of design. The hunter figured in the first gem is almost up to the Bushman mark. In his dress ethnologists will recognise an arrangement now common among the natives of New Caledonia. In the third gem the woman between two swans may be Leda, or she may represent Leto in Delos. Observe the amazing rudeness of the design, and note the modern waist and crinoline. The artists who engraved these gems on hard stone had, of necessity, much better tools than any savages possess, but their art was truly savage. To discover how Greek art climbed in a couple of centuries from this coarse and childish work to the grace of the Ægina marbles, and thence to the absolute freedom and perfect unapproachable beauty of the work of Phidias, is one of the most singular problems in the history of art. Greece learned something, no doubt, from her early knowledge of the arts the priests of Assyria and Egypt had elaborated in the valleys of the Euphrates and the Nile. That might account for a swift progress from savage to formal and hieratic art; but whence sprang the inspiration which led her so swiftly on to art that is perfectly free, natural, and god-like? It is a mystery of race, and of a divine gift. The heavenly gods have given it to mortals.' Ælian, 109 Æschines, 39 customs of women in, 72 Amazon, Indians of, 131 - deities, 103-120 bear in religion, 176 descent claimed from, 104, 128 in stars, 121-142 sun regarded as a beast, 133 Apollonius Rhodius, 95 Apsyrtos, 95 Apuleius, 64, 75 Arcadians, 128 Ares, 126 Argives, 110 Aristophanes, 133 Arktos, 141 Arnobius, 39 Art, early Greek, 303 gods in, 118 BEA Art of Ojibways, 293 - of savages, 276, 304 Artemis Orthia, 33 Aryan myths parallel with sav- race, 117 Aryans and savages, 134-135 Assyria, army of, destroyed, 112 Astley, 72 Atharva Veda, 216, 217 Athens, owl of, 110 Aurelii, 104 Australia, 72 arts of, 283 divination in, 170 - swallowing myth, 54 Customs, savage Greek of ex- Customs of women, 71, 73 - - among Yorubas, 73 - Fijian, 73, 74 |