A guide to the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the British Museum (1899)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Smith, A. H. (Arthur Hamilton), 1860-1941 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 180
Fig. 51.—Vase byPaslades. B 668. Attic Black-Jiyure Vases. 167 :;shown, sometimes nAv;iits the procession, and sometimes, as in thecut (fig. 52, B 312, in Cases 62, G3), he flies in alarm. The Birth of Athene from the brain of Zeus (B 218; B 244,£g. o3 ; compare B 147 on pedestal 1, and B 424 in… … interest, since some writers have thought that it may throw lighton the composition of the east pediment of the Parthenon (p. 19).It can hardly be supposed, however, that in the front of her owntemple Athene would have been represented of diminutive scale in-comparison with Zeus; and it is more…
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