Animals
often appeared, especially in hunting scenes; they are ordinarily made
with a startling fidelity. The Assyrians observed nature and
faithfully reproduced it; hence the merit of their art.
The Greeks themselves learned in this school, by imitating the
Assyrian bas-reliefs. They have excelled them, but no people, not even
the Greeks, has better known how to represent animals.
FOOTNOTES:
[15] A Persian song enumerates 300 different uses of the palm.
[16] Or perhaps from the east (Arabia).--ED.
[17] Recent discoveries confirm the view of a very ancient
civilization--ED.
[18] Somewhat exaggerated. See Perrot and Chipiez, "History of Art in
Assyria and Chaldea," ii., 60; and Maspero, "Passing of the Empires," p.
468.--ED.
[19] Lenormant, "Ancient History."
[20] For example, hilka, hilka, bescha, bescha (begone! begone! bad!
bad!)
[21] The temples were pyramidal, of stones or terraces similar to the
tower of Borsippa.
CHAPTER V
THE ARYANS OF INDIA
THE ARYANS
=Aryan Languages.=--The races which in our day inhabit Europe--Greeks
and Italians to the south, Slavs in Russia, Teutons in Germany, Celts
in Ireland--speak very different languages.
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