Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 210
r works by Phidias were in and uponthe Parthenon, and some of these are now in theBritish Museum in London, and are known as theElgin marbles, from the fact that they were carriedto England by the Earl of Elgin. After the completion of the Minerva, Phidiaswent to Elis, where he made the wonderful… … THE MOST ANCIENT FORM OF CREEK CHARIOT. (FROM AN ANTIQUE SCULPTURE.) and of war, and this statue represented her as vic-torious. It was nearly forty feet high, includingthe base ; the different parts were very much orna-mented ; the crest of the helmet was formed like asphinx, and had griffins on…
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