Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 179
AMAZON. 144 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCHOOL CLASSICS 174. The death of the Amazon Penthesilea.On a sarcophagus at Paris. … The Amazon queen, wearing a tall Phrygian cap,chlamys falling behind her back, and boots, sinks to theground, supported by Achilles, who wears helmet andchlamys. In her right hand is her double-axe (71-eAe/cvs orXdfipvs, the typical weapon of the Amazons, althoughGreek artists sometimes, as in No.…
Classical antiquities
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