...do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture — I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting...behind, and cannot, by any ingenuity, be withdrawn. A glimpse of something real lying behind the curtain of legend and poetry was afforded by Conze's discovery...

...I do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture—I reply, in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him on exhibiting...of imitative art—' The curtain is the picture.' That curtain conceals nothing behind, and cannot by any ingenuity be withdrawn. I undertake only to...

...historical matter these legends may contain, or to say that they contain any at all. He tells us that what we now read as poetry and legend was once accredited history, — the only history which the earliest Greeks could conceive or relish ; and that he undertakes Mythical...