This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...fighter on the Greek side being Ajax, whom the /Eginetans regarded as an ancestral hero. In the east pediment, incomplete as it is, a similar incident is represented, which in this case seems best explained as belonging to the expedition against Troy, led by Herakles, with the aid of Telamon, the father of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...fighter on the Greek side being Ajax, whom the /Eginetans regarded as an ancestral hero. In the east pediment, incomplete as it is, a similar incident is represented, which in this case seems best explained as belonging to the expedition against Troy, led by Herakles, with the aid of Telamon, the father of Ajax, whose exploits also had shed a legendary glory on x'Egina. But now, if it be asked who, among the recorded artists of Lgina, is the most likely either to have executed or to have influenced the execution of these sculptures, there can only be one answer. It could not have been Kallon; for he is associated with the previous generation, being a contemporary of Gitiadas,3 and the sculptor of a figure of Persephone supporting a tripod at Amyklae. Again he is generally described as coeval with Kanachos,4 while elsewhere5 his statues are compared in hardness of style with Etruscan sculpture. The same impression would be gathered from the only other sculpture of his of which a record survives, the image (xoanon) of Athene in Troezen.6 Sostratos and his son Ptoliehos, already mentioned as pupils of Aristokles, were doubtless capable of such a task, though no tradition to that effect exists. There remains then the name of Onatas, of whose works two in particular are singularly suggestive of the pediment sculptures in Munich. The first was a group of ten statues at Olympia representing Greeks during the Trojan War casting lots as to who should meet the challenge of Hector to single combat,1 and the second was a group of statues set up in Delphi by the Tarentines in commemoration of their victory over the Peucetians, in which group the combatants were ranged round the body of Opis, king of the Iapygians. Thus, in the one group the subject and in the...
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