An outline history of sculpture for beginners and students, with complete indexes and numerous illustrations (1893)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, F.A. Stokes · leaf 35
oth-er, and are executed in a rudemanner. The most interest-ing one represents Heracles,or Hercules, struggling with aTriton (Fig. 16). The female figures repre-sent Nereids, who are terrifiedby seeing Heracles in contestwith the sea-monster. Thereare many proofs that thesereliefs belong to a very… … Fig. 17.—Heracles and theCecrops. 24 SCULPTURE. A very fine work is also from Selinus, and representsActaeon torn by his dogs. The mythological story was thatZeus, or Jupiter, was angry with Actaeon because he wished to marry Semele,and the great godcommanded Arte-mis, or Diana, tothrow a stags…
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