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imperfect imitations in a sentence
1. The forms on Earth, are imperfect imitations (εἰκόνες, eikones, "images") of the celestial world of numbers.
Some Words
- "images
- the celestial world
- a great influence
- post-Archaic art
- The Greek architects
- the mathematical relation
- the esthetic perfection
- (canon
- a divine reason
- the Greek belief
- ideal forms
- his metaphysical theory
- "ideas
- imperfect duplicates
- the intellectual celestial ideas
- (οἶδα
- (εἶδος
- the same root
- the word idea
- a thing ἰδείν
- the Greek mind
- Plato's time
- his theories
- The Greek sculptors
- the proportions
- the sensible
- the intellectual
- male youth
- the modern term
- those representations
- male youths
- certain religious needs
- The first statues
- The formality
- their stance
- the Egyptian precedent
- a good reason
- a clear idea
- the archaic smile
- good manners