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Excerpt from Sophocles
We may judge how mercenary, in a Greek point of view, would have seemed such an exhibition as that of the Royal Academy, from the analogous case of Zeuxis, the Millais of his day, who exhibited his picture of Helen, and took money at the doors. Crowds ocked to see the painting, and the painter cleared a large sum - but the name of Helen was changed by a satirical public to The Courtesan.' (see St John, Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, i.
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