Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 295
schylus 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 a rock, but is really the bald head of the poet.This was the legend of the poets death —a legend whichwas of still older… … SOPHOCLES. HISTORY 253 314. Sophocles. Statue in the Late ran. The nose and some other small details of the head, bothfeet, the right hand, basis, and case of MSS. with the plinthare modern restorations. A fine statue, perhaps copied from the bronze portraitset up by the Athenians in the Theatre of…
Classical antiquities
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