The Mercersburg Quarterly Review, 1855, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Mercersburg Quarterly Review, 1855, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint) written by Franklin and Marshall College and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mercersburg Quarterly Review, 1855, Vol. 7 This curious contest between Neptune and Minerva is rep resented in splendid colossal statues from the master hand of Phidias, on the western pediment of the Parthenon, while on the eastern was seen the birth of Minerva in the presence of all the gods of Mount Olympus. The earliest statues of Minerva were made of wood in the rigid Egyptian style, and were placed in wooden sanctuaries. But the Athenians, in their rapid progress toward civilization, soon built a larger temple of yellow lime-stone, ornamented with marble columns and painted in brilliant blue, black, and red colors, without any sculptures. 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.