Philo Judaeus De Gigantibus 59

ed. Paul Wendland

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[59] παρὸ καὶ εὐδοκίμους καὶ γλαφυρὰς τέχνας, ζωγραφίαν καὶ ἀνδριαντοποιίαν, ἐκ τῆς καθ’ αὑτὸν πολιτείας p. 271 M. ἐξήλασεν, ὅτι τὴν τοῦ ἀληθοῦς ψευδόμεναι
φύσιν ἀπάτας καὶ σοφίσματα δι’ ὀφθαλμῶν ψυχαῖς εὐπαραγώγοις τεχνιτεύουσι.

De Gigantibus. Philo Judaeus. ed. Paul Wendland. Germany. 2014.

Funding provided by European Social Fund Saxony.

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De Gigantibus (Greek) (Philo Judaeus. Opera quae supersunt, Volume 2. Wendland, Paul, editor. Berlin: Reimer, 1897.)

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On the Giants First1KGreek (The works of Philo Judaeus, the contemporary of Josephus, volume 1. Yonge, C. D., translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854.) — 59 focus

[59] in consequence of which principle, he has banished from the constitution, which he has established, those celebrated and beautiful arts of statuary and painting, because they, falsely imitating the nature of the truth, contrive deceits and snares, in order, through the medium of the eyes, to beguile the souls which are liable to be easily won over. ¹²³

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