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Wonders of sculpture (1873)

Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 201

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* * * and the wise Zeus rejoiced. As wehave before stated, there remain nine fragments ofthis pediment, five from the left side and four fromthe right. Of the left beginning at the extreme 172 GRECIAN SCULPTURE. point of the angle, we find first •. the head ofHyperion (Hehos, the sun) leaving the… … Fig. 38.^—Theseus. (From the Parthenon.) on a rock, covered with the skin of a lion, andimitating the attitude of Hercules ; then a groupof two goddesses on low seats, which are alike intheir construction. They are supposed to be Per-sephone and Demeter; one of them leans her headon the shoulder of…

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