Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 250
This portrait of Pericles is probably of much later datethan the one in the British Museum, and perhaps belongsto the second century after Christ. Both doubtless go backto the same original, which is thought to have been by theartist Cresilas, a contemporary of Pericles. HISTORY 209 247. The Plague… … This basis was found in excavating the Propylaea of theAthenian Acropolis. The erection of the Propylaea wasfinished in 433 B.C., and the place in which the basis stoodshows that it cannot have been set up until after the com-pletion of the building. Plutarch has a pretty story(Pericl. 13) of how…
Classical antiquities
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