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more grew out of Olympia than the history of Thucydides out
of the dramas of Aeschylus. Rather, it seems that the fifth-
century Greeks, having experimented in realistic art, began to
find it more to their taste than formal art because they
acquired a liking for verisimilitude.
A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.
* Instead of using Seltman’s unique observations about Greek
celature as a take-off strip for the medieval manuscript culture,
I am going to enlarge the present mosaic of exhibits a little
more. Before approaching the five centuries of the Gutenberg
galaxy, it will be well to note how profoundly indifferent are
nonliterate men to visual values in the organization of
perception and experience. This indifference is shared by the
artist “since Cézanne.” A great art historian like Siegfried