Gardner, Ernest Arthur, 1862-1939 · London : Duckworth and co.; New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 374
hole conceptionof the human figure, the whole athletic ideal, isdifferent. The Apoxyomenos has the tendencies ofAgios toward length of limb and lightness of framecarried a step further. The Agios is alert, but it isthe alertness of stability; the Apoxyomenos, lightlypoised, seems able to spring off… … AIMJXYUMENOS, IN \ATI<AX Tv/uir p. 2-u LYSIPPUS 221 than they really are. Compare, for example, the lowerlegs of the two —(allowing, of course, for the fact thatthe thick and rather clumsy ankles of the Agias are arestoration)— in the Apoacyomenos the muscles of thecalf are short and swelling,…
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