Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 524
the dreadful task imposed upon him from above,but the attitude is not universal, and the interpretation may befanciful. The slaying of the Bull is emblematic of the profoundidea of life through death. The Bull is the power of Evil, which istwice slain, once at creation, when its blood gives birth… … .Mrnii!\s si.AYi:/;<l/./rrn,„ on,,■/,„,■ UM. .Iffir CiiiiKiiit - Milhr SEVERUS TO DIOCLETIAN 311 have been entirely unknown to the Greeks makes itsappearance in the Roman world towards the close of thefirst century. One of its earliest monuments, dating, itwould seem, from the principate of…
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