Poulsen, Frederik, 1876-, Richards, G. C. (George Chatterton), 1867-1951 · London : Gyldendal · leaf 189
inferiorcarvers. The delight in representing this good, vigorous 174 THE TREASURY OF THE ATHENIANS animal, which a few decades later reached its height inMyrons famous cow, is a legacy from early archaic art,and explains why so many of these metopes are given overto what are, according to our… … Fig. 70.—Heracles and the Nemean lion(Fouilles de Delphes, ibid.). and in black- and red-figured vases the cows take as promi-iient a place as here in the metope, ® The metope with the fight of Heracles with the Nemeanlion (fig. 70) is also badly preserved. This contest is theprototype of the…
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