A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 189
er that ofHephaestos, who according tothe ancient myth cleaved thehead of Zeus with his axe toaccomplish the birth of Athene,—as represented on the patera(Fig. 95), showing him standingnear holding his axe—or Prome-theus, to whom Attic traditionpreferred to attribute the deed.De Quincy proposed… … Fig. 95.—Bikth of Athene,on a patera. THE WESTERN PEDIMENT. The mutilated statues of the western pediment as seen inCarreys drawing (Fig. 88) are sufticiently complete to indicate 166 THE WEST PEDIMENT. the subject; but they were reduced to mere fragments andtorsos before Stuart saw the Parthenon…
Sculpture, Ancient
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