Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 300
This portrait reproduces well the prominent eves, snubnose, and thick lips which were characteristic of Socrates(Xenophon, Sympos. v. 5-7). Plato (Sympos. 215) makesAlcibiades compare him to the statuettes of Sileni or to theSatyr Marsyas. HISTORY 257 319. Plato. Her in at Berlin. … The herm is inscribed TTAATWN, in letters of the secondcentury after Christ, to which date the actual execution ofthe portrait probably belongs. R 258 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCHOOL CLASSICS 320. Isocrates. Bust in the Villa A/bani (converted in modern times into a herm).
Classical antiquities
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