Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 39
the sea-god is generallyrepresented as heavier than that of Zeus, as though mattedwith brine. The restorer has placed the prow of a shipunder the gods feet and a dolphin behind him; but thetype invented by the Greek sculptor Lysippus, from whichthis work is descended, represented him with his foot… … Ceres is seated on a throne, her hair wreathed withbarley, and holding stalks of the same plant in her lefthand ; at her feet is a basket (/<aAa#os) also filled withbarley. In her right hand is a torch (which should berepresented as lighted). She is here conceived as thegoddess of harvest,…
Classical antiquities
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