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A manual of Greek archaeology (1886)

Collignon, Maxime, 1849-1917, Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908 · London : Cassell Pub. Co. · leaf 203

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eidias, and, like him, was a pupil of the ArgiveAgeladas. A list of his works that may be drawnup from the ancient writers shows us that he bor-rowed his subjects from religious and heroic cycles ;vhe also continued the tradition of the Peloponnesianschools in executing statues of athletes for… … 190 GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY. throne, and wore a crown, on which were representedthe Charites and the Seasons ; in one hand the god-dess held a pomegranate, and in the other a sceptre,surmounted by a cuckoo. The principal features ofthe type thus created by Polycleitus are found on thebeautiful coins of…

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