Ancient Greece; a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 327
emain. They date from about600, and are thus some half-century older than the Croesuscolumn, and still older than the Harpy tomb (Figs. 52, 59)Three of the earliest of them, casts of which are to be seen inthe British Museum, represent Perseus cutting off the Gorgons 1 See Hdt. v. 72 for the… … 6o. EUROPA ON THE Bui,!,Metope from temple at Selinus 226 THE AGE OF PEISISTRATUS head, Heracles carrying the Cercopes ^ suspended Uke rabbitsto the two ends of a pole, and a chariot with its four horsesfacing the spectator—a clever bit of perspective. Some ofthe figures are exceedingly uncouth,…
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