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In the long succession of portraits which embrace three cenuries of history the differences of times *In subsequent paragraphs Perrot imagines the Greek statues of the Louvre thus addressing a classical student.
t Turning from Greece to Italy, Perrot derives a no less striking lesson from the statues of Roman emperors.
— s— and of men are contrasted more keenly and more vividly than in the recitals of ancient authors or in the dissertations of modern erudites. Augustus and Tiberius, Constantine... and Theodosius, all bore the same title, "imperator" ; all were called consuls, Caesars, Augusti, patres patrice, etc. Nevertheless, from the first to the fourth centuries the supreme power was greatly modified. Volumes have been written to explain the change, but there is nothing that makes it so clear as the comparison of the images of these princes. Augustus, in perhaps the most beautiful of all his statues, called de Prima Porta, has his head, arms, legs, and feet bare. Over the soldier's short tunic he wears a cuirass and over it is thrown the military mantle of command.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In the long succession of portraits which embrace three cenuries of history the differences of times *In subsequent paragraphs Perrot imagines the Greek statues of the Louvre thus addressing a classical student.
t Turning from Greece to Italy, Perrot derives a no less striking lesson from the statues of Roman emperors.
— s— and of men are contrasted more keenly and more vividly than in the recitals of ancient authors or in the dissertations of modern erudites. Augustus and Tiberius, Constantine... and Theodosius, all bore the same title, "imperator" ; all were called consuls, Caesars, Augusti, patres patrice, etc. Nevertheless, from the first to the fourth centuries the supreme power was greatly modified. Volumes have been written to explain the change, but there is nothing that makes it so clear as the comparison of the images of these princes. Augustus, in perhaps the most beautiful of all his statues, called de Prima Porta, has his head, arms, legs, and feet bare. Over the soldier's short tunic he wears a cuirass and over it is thrown the military mantle of command.
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