A Handbook of Greek and Roman sculpture : to accompany a collection of reproductions of Greek and Roman sculpture (1905)
Mach, Edmund von, 1870-1927, University Prints (Winchester, Mass.) · Boston, Bureau of University Travel · leaf 359
f the suggesteddeed may be averted. From the mere study of the composition, therefore, onereaches the conclusion that Antiope is an unpleasant addition,although she is necessary for the sculptured group. ThatPliny should not have mentioned her, if his description wasmade from this group, seems… … THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD. 297 the collection of Asinius Pollio is full of the most interestingcurios. There is even a marble group of the punishment ofDirke, in which all the figures (well known in the painting),Zethos and Amphion and Dirke and even the rope, are carvedtogether as if out of one…
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