Plato on Greek and Egyptian art

The Athenian in the Laws, the dialogue's main speaker, claims that the Greeks have much to learn from the way the Egyptians codified artistic styles and stuck to them, as opposed to the restless craving for originality and now styles marking Greek art of his day. ATHENIAN: Long ago, it seems, [the Egyptians] recognized this priciple of which we are now speaking, namely that the movements, and so..

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