Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 56
The right leg from the top of the boot, and the left legfrom above the knee downwards are restored. The god wears his usual conical felt cap (7rtAo§) andchiton exomis, which leaves his right arm free for action,His feet were perhaps not booted in the original. Theproportions of the figure are… … The sarcophagus represents the making of man byPrometheus (see No. 75). The presence of the fire godHephaestus and the forge of the Cyclopes is suggested bythe legend of the stealing of the fire by Prometheus. Thefire in which the metal is heated burns in a sort of cave.The Cyclops behind the rock…
Classical antiquities
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