[Illustration:
EVANG. GR?CA
6TH CENT.
_Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 5111, fol. 13_]
[Illustration:
EVANG. GR?CA
9TH CENT.
_Brit. Mus. Burney MS. 19 fol. 1 v._]
In some of them we see the horizontal frown of the Homeric heroes
({~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH
TONOS~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK
SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER
UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER
OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER
UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK
SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER
FINAL SIGMA~}), and of the Georgian and Armenian races shown in the
features of the Emperor Johannes Ducas. We have, too, the large Hera-
like eye with its mystic gaze, which, in later Byzantine work, becomes
first a gaze of lofty indifference, as in the portraits of the emperors
and empresses, and lastly a stony and expressionless stare; still, if
possible, more stony and glaring when transferred to Celtic and
Carolingian Gospel-books. (See chapter on Carolingian Illumination.)
Of this fourth period we might indeed point to many examples.
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