Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 20
headwas once supposed to be a reproduction of the typeintroduced by Pheidias (see No. 4); but although theinfluence of Pheidias is dimly to be traced, this headlacks the strength and severity of fifth century sculpture, RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY 5 and without doubt the original from which it is copied… … As King of Epirus, in which kingdom Dodona wassituated, Pyrrhus placed on his coins the head of theDodonaean Zeus. The god is crowned with a wreath ofleaves from the oracular oak which was sacred to him.Comp. Ovid, Met. vii. 622: Sacra Iovi quercus de semine Dodonaeo. The letters underneath the…
Classical antiquities
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