Lecture VI

GA 105/1908-08-10/p042 ·1908-08-10 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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1. The Zeus type, to which belong the Gods grouped round Zeus. 2. The Hermes or Mercury type. This was added later to the Zeus type, and was portrayed by the Greeks as an entirely distinct form. If you observe the type of hair in the case of Zeus and his kind, and, on the other hand the curly hair of Hermes, also the formation of the eyes and the position of the ears, you will see that the Greeks wished to express something different by this. 3. The faun type. This type belongs to a still older humanity, and can be clearly distinguished from the Mercury type.

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