Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 167
Herakles and Atlas — to a plane quite in keeping with the perfection ofthe greater arts of architecture and sculpture. The story of Herakles, whose various trials ofstrength every schoolboy knows, is shown in everydetail by innumerable illustrations. Here we seehim in actual combat with the Nemean… … 144 VASE PAINTING IN GREECE HS slaying the hundred-headed Hydra, or capturingthe Cretan bull and the Erymanthian boar. Apollo,too, is a favorite hero; there are endless repre-sentations which show him in every familiar act,— as sun god, whose locks shed abroad a radiancedivine; as musician, holding…
Painting, Greek · Painting, Greco-Roman
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