A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 61
os.1 Other objects illustrating the frequency and variety of Greekand Roman dedications may best be described in approximatelychronological order. Two objects, which are more fully dealtwith in other sections, may here be mentioned. In the sixthcentury B.C. the athlete Exoidas dedicated to the… … Fig. 38.—Bronze Votive Hare (No. 124). L. 2Jin. victory off Kyme, has been already described (p. 8). Other votivehelmets are shown in Cases 114-5. For the votive spearheads (?)see p. 9. The huntsman, no less than the athlete and the warrior,felt that the gods took an intimate part in his successes.…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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