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A manual of Greek archaeology (1886)

Collignon, Maxime, 1849-1917, Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908 · London : Cassell Pub. Co. · leaf 215

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sagetes, representedthe inspired god, whilethe beautiful youthof Praxiteles, with hisslender form and delicately-modelled outlines,* has allthe grace of an Athenian ephebus. Praxiteles wasinspired also by the legends of the cycle of Dionysus,and delighted in treating the figures of the… … Fig. 62.—APHRODITE.(On a Medal of Cnidus). Copies in the Louvre and in the Vatican.

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