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Kap Bo: 180 Yon oer Wal on We A a neg ‘wn Pre Deseo {9 5:1 Sei lita Almonte yey ony F Mona JENNY STRAUSS CLAY Art, Nature, and the Gods in the Chariot Race of liad Y ‘Ts PAPER 19 DSOICATED to the memory of Sat Benass, who dled In 002 1 istered by afew pages len Benede's are, The sel Diomedes ae the Plot of the Tinta! bere I ln aly borate on is nig ‘The fuer games for Pathos ofr lst glen «pad i ‘wer, ofthe Gewk heroes at play the ae agi sting for sus ad supremacy tat as place Hoody eaves the bt ere raced without dency repercussions. Yet he pasion ate he sane a fv the Laprediaale ftervetons of the gods pecially in the ex sive description ofthe het ce. “The chao race conten the Et and mon elaborately described tthe contests inthe fone game for Pao, Lethe other events, the cuviot mace ffs 4 baron, sometins even amis, yeion of ‘oat of Hf end death onthe betes. 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