Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 271
r) at Pella, the Macedonian capital.The style of the coin type is, however, archaistic, notarchaic; that is to say, it represents the sort of figurewhich an artist of the third or second century B.C. wouldmake when imitating an archaic work. The tip-toe atti-tude and the exaggerated stiffness of… … 272. Hieronymus, king of Syracuse (B.C. 216-215). Silver coin in the British Museum. The head of the young king-wearing a diadem. The weak ex-pression of the face and the striking contrast with the head of HieroII. (No. 267) are obvious. 273. Flamininus in Greece. Gold coin (stater) issued in…
Classical antiquities
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