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omem or CARICATURE AND GROTESQUE_SPIRIT or CARICATURE 11x" 
EGYPT-MONSTERS2 PYTHON AND GORGON-GREECE-THE mo- 
NYSLAO CEREMONIES, ANTD onmm or THE DRAMA--THE om 
comany-Lovxa OF PARODY-PARODIES on SUBJECTS TAKEN 
mom GREOIAN MYTHOLOGY! TIIE vxsxr TO THE LOVER; APOLLO 
AT DELPHI-THE PARTIALITY ron nmony CONTINUED AMONG 
THE ROMANS2 THE FLIGHT or ENEAS        1 
CHAPTER 
ORIGIN OF TIIIE STAGE IN ROME-_USES OF THE MASK AMONG THE 
ROMANS-SCENES FROM ROMAN COMEDY_THE SANNIO AND MIMUS 
--THE ROMZAN DRAMA_THE ROMAN SATIRISTS_CARIOAT'URE- 
ANIMALS INTRODUCED IN THE CHARACTERS OF MEN_TIIE PIGMIES, 
AND THEIR INTRODUCTION INTO OARICATURE; THE FARM-YARD; 
THE PAI_NTER,S STUDIO; THE PROGESSION-POLITICAL GARICATURE 
IN POMPEII; THE GRAFFITI . . . .      . 
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THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES-- 
THE ROMAN MIMI CONTINUED TO EXIST1THE TEUTONIC AFTER- 
DINNER ENTERTA_'DIMENTS_CLERICAL SATIRESI ARCHBISHOP HE- 
RIGER AND THE DREAMER; THE SUPPER, OF THE SA.D.VTS_TRAN- 
SITION FROM ANCIENT TO MEDIEVAL ART_TA.STE FOR MONSTROUS 
ANIMALS, DRAGONS, ETO.; CHURCH OF SAN FEDELE, AT COMO"- 
SPIRIT OF CARIGATURE AND LOVE OF GROTESQUE AMONG THE 
 ANGLO-SAXONS_GROTESQUTE FIGURES OF DEMONS_NATU'RAL TEN- 
DENOY OF TIE) EARLY MEDIEVAL ARTISTS TO DIKAW IN CARI- 
CATURELEXAMPLES FROM EARLY MAN USCRIPTS AND SCULPTURES .