Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 224
the hat, or at least hair lying close at the backof the head, but projecting in thick curls around the forehead andtemples. The distinction between Polydeuces the boxer, and Castor,in his equestrian costume, is only to be found where they arerepresented in heroic circumstances, not wThere they are… … CASTOR MANAGING A HORSE. styled the works of Phidias and Praxiteles, they are supposed tohave been executed at Rome, probably after the time of Augustus,from Greek originals; they are of colossal proportions, being 18 feethigh. Statues :— Castor and Pollux, Quirinal Hill, Rome. BAS-RELIEFS. 201…
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