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ure wasstill in a measure under the influ-ence of the archaic school in whichhe himself had been trained. Theexpress statement of Pausanias (x.lo, i) is, that the statue had beenerected to commemorate the battleof Marathon, which was fought in 490 b.c. At that date Pheidias couldonly have been a… … Fig. 23.—Athene Promachos. Greek Bronze.British Museum. 58 GREEK BRONZES glorious victory of Marathon, apparently soon after the event. We have,somehow, to account for the considerable interval of time which must haveelapsed between the battle of 490 b.c. and the erection of the colossalbronze…
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