LINKTV Deutsche Welle Journal September 11, 2013
Architecture, sculpture, painting, even the landscape, create a vision of a perfect place, a place of fantasy and myth where gods might walk with men, somewhere, of course, which has never existed in history. It is imagined, yet h been eated out of fragments of haleamt, halfremembed ancient greece and rome. The poet shelley wrote at the beginning of the 19th century, we are all greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts ll have thr roots in greece. But for greece, we might still have been savages and idaters. The human form and the human mind attained to a perfection in greece wh...