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Symmetry in Early Christian Relief Sculpture

C. L. Meader

American Journal of Archaeology. (Jan. - Mar., 1900) pp. 126-147

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[14 words] aristotle, pleasure, virtue, action, justice, desire, pleasures, moral, things, happiness, ethics, pain, soul, virtues, goods, actions, desires, person, agent, eudaimonia, activity, rational, sake, sense, natural, plato, something, claim, ethical, pleasant

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