Collignon, Maxime, 1849-1917, Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908 · London : Cassell Pub. Co. · leaf 126
of them represents Orestes meeting his sisterElectra, the other the murder of Clytemnestra byher son. The figures are short and heavily built ;the movements indicated are awkward ; the attitudeof Orestes is almost identical in the two scenes. We * Homolle, Bull, de Corr. hellen., 1879, plates II.,… … •p//o. sif/sW/ Fig. 29.—perseus slaying the gorgon.(Metope from Selinus.) action necessary to secure variety in the movements I 114 GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY. of his figures. Several other bas-reliefs in the samemuseum, found at Chrysapha, represent two persons,a man and a woman, seated upon richly…
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