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English: Chronos, of Time, with his Daughter, the Four Seasons, from a painting by the painter E. Veith

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Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Greece—The Early Civilization of Crete i 5 i Minos, King of Crete, becomes thus the earliest Greek whose hfe and rank.and personality we can even vaguely reconstruct. His palace at Knossus hasbeen unearthed, and shows that he was no petty city-king, but that his swayextended over the whole broad island of hundred-citied Crete, as later poetscalled it. He was probably high-priest as well as king, ruling his people chieflythrough their reUgion. They worshipped a female deity, the Great Mother,the productive force of Nature, and they symbolized this Mother by a sort ofdouble axe which we find stamped upon their ornaments and buildings. Theirswas a cruel worship, involving public sacrifices of human beings made to savagebulls before a crowd of people; or perhaps the sacrifice was to a bull-headedidol such as the Moloch of the Phoenicians. The later Greeks who had beentributary to Crete long remembered these sacrifices; and we come upon tradi-tions of the Minotaur or Minos bull in many p

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Eduard Veith  (1858–1925)  wikidata:Q1290240
 
Eduard Veith
Description Austrian- painter, university teacher, architect, history painter and genre painter
Date of birth/death 30 March 1858 Edit this at Wikidata 18 March 1925 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Neutitschein Vienna
Work period 1871 Edit this at Wikidata–1925 Edit this at Wikidata
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  • bookyear:1913
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
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  • bookauthor:Horne__Charles_F___Charles_Francis___1870_1942
  • booksubject:World_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Niglutsch
  • bookcontributor:University_of_California_Libraries
  • booksponsor:MSN
  • bookleafnumber:466
  • bookcollection:cdl
  • bookcollection:americana
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