Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 294
The right shoulder is restored. Aesop is imagined as acripple, but the face shows a keen, alert expression, whichis intensified by the deformity of the body. He probablylived about the middle of the sixth century B.C. (cp.Herodotus, ii. 134). HISTORY •251 313. Aeschylus (?).Bust in the Capitoline… … The identification of this bust with Aeschylus is probable,but not certain. It is based on its likeness with the headof Aeschylus on a gem which illustrates the legend of thedeath of the poet: an eagle is flying over him, holding inits claws a tortoise, which it is about to drop on what itthinks is…
Classical antiquities
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