Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 258
HISTORY •217 the Great. As king, he wears a diadem; and claiming tobe the son of the Libyan god Amnion (cp. Nos. 19, 20)he has a small rams horn growing at the side of thehead. 258. Alexander the Great.Marble bust in the British Museum, from Alexandria. … A somewhat idealized and sentimental portrait of Alex-ander, reproducing, however, many of the characteristicfeatures of the king, such as the inclination of the head toone side, the lion-like hair, with the two strongly developedlocks over the middle of the forehead, and the voluptuousglistening…
Classical antiquities
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