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 637
Rhodes—anticipating the Colossus of Rhodes, which was by his pupil,Chares—and a huge seated Heracles, of which he made aminute copy as a table ornament for Alexander—a statuettewhich, if we are to believe Martial, afterwards belonged toHannibal and Sulla. A statue of Alexander by Lysippus,… … 129. Aphrodite of Mei,os 444 THE RISE OF MACEDONIA his successors. The leonine face with its overhangingmane of hair and its swimming eyes, in whose depths passionand madness seem to lurk, became a type which long pervadedsculpture, so that not a few extant works of the later periodare either…
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