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 429
er, on the plateau inside Cimons Gate statues wereagain erected, among them (c. 460) a colossal bronze Atheneby Pheidias, then about thirty-five years of age, and some tenyears later perhaps his scarcely less famous I/Cmnian Athene(see Fig. 87 and I/ist of Illustrations). The greater statue—which… … ANCIENT GREECEit overtops considerably the Parthenon and the Propylaea.The crest on the helmet and the gilded tip of the spear served,says Pausanias, as a landmark for sailors, like the gilt angelon the Venetian Campanile. The statue stood on the Acropolisfor eight centuries, and was then probably…
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