Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 84
painfully on his shoulders a largeroundish object, of which an extension passes along theedge of the picture to behind the head of Prometheus.This is probably meant for another Titan, Atlas, bearingthe heavens. Of the snake rising on its tail behind him nosatisfactory explanation is forthcoming.… … The Titan is fastened to, or perhaps actually impaled on,a stake, his arms tied at the wrists. Behind him is Heracles,wearing the lions skin on his head and as a sort of over-garment over his close-fitting chiton (cp. No. 89); at hisside hangs his sword ; he has let fly two arrows againstthe eagle,…
Classical antiquities
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