Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 163
In many ways this figure is better conceived than thecorresponding one in No. 156, and is probably nearerthe original from which both are derived. In the back- ground is the sea. 130 ILLUSTEATIONS OF SCHOOL CLASSICS 158. The murder of Medeas children. South Italian vase from Cumae. In the Louvre.… … Medea, who wears a long sleeved dress, and a peplosfastened round her waist, has seized one of her children bythe hair, and plunges her sword into his right side. In thebackground are an Ionic fluted column, a small statue on atall pedestal, and a pilaster—details suggesting the palacein which the…
Classical antiquities
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