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theme or pressure in the complex configuration. He watches
the reduction of the resonant poetic modes to the simple visual
lines of prose, and cites the Parthenon sculptures as “the most
perfect art-prose work of the Greeks.” These representational
forms of sculpture he notes (p. 66) as prose because of their
“descriptive realism”:
The fact, however, remains that prose literature and art-
prose began to appear among the Greeks at about the
same time, and that before the fifth century was out
each had produced its masterpiece; the history of
Thucydides, and the sculptures of the Parthenon.
What cause or causes led to the adoption of descriptive
realism in art to the near exclusion of poetic formalism? It is of
no use to talk of development or growth, for the Parthenon no