The glory that was Greece : a survey of Hellenic culture & civilisation (1911)
Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933 · Philadelphia : Lippincott · leaf 395
etween Apollo the harper and Marsyas the semi-bestial playerof that barbarous instrument the flute. Marsyas had challengedApollo to a contest, and being quite inevitably defeated wasflayed alive as a punishment for his presumption. The penaltyis delicately indicated by the Phrygian slave who holds… … English Photo Co., Athens Plate LXXI. FIGURE OF A YOUTH : FROM CERIGO THE FOURTH CENTURY and the naked, violent Satyr distending his cheeks as flute-playing barbarians were not ashamed to do. It is evident thatthe Marsyas is a quotation by Praxiteles of the celebratedfigure by Myron. We note, as a…
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