Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 232
and the Giants attacking, having snakesfor their legs (Fig. 264). Zeus was the national god of the Greeks, and was firstworshipped on high places and mountain tops long beforeany temples were raised to his honour. He was wor-shipped all over Greece, and one of his earliest shrineswas at Dordona, in… … Fig. 264.—Cameo of Athenion. up, which was the work of the renowned Greek sculptorPhidias (B.C. 500—432). This famous statue of the supremegod of the Greeks was a seated figure on a lofty throne, andwas more than 40 feet high. It was made of, or probablycovered over with, plates of ivory and gold…
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