Roman sculpture from Augustus to Constantine (1907)
Strong, Eugénie Sellers · London : Duckworth and Co. ; New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 84
from waist to ankles. On her lap is abundanceof fruit—apples, grapes, and nuts; on the left knee,which is raised, sits a little child whom she holds withher left hand ; while a somewhat bigger child scramblesup on her right. This Tellus is a very different impex--sonation from that of the Gx-eek… … THE AUGUSTAN AGE 43 as we know her from Greek vases, and from th<? friezes ofPergamon in Berlin, and of Priene at the BritishMuseum, where Ge is seen rising to the waist out of theground to implore the gods to spare the life of her ownoffspring, the giants. It is a new conception we havebefore…
Sculpture, Roman · Sculpture, Greco-Roman
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