The description of Greece, [Unknown Binding]

Pausanias (Author)

Book Description

| Publication Date: 1824

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1794. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... of Hercules. With respect to the .artist by whom the chest was made, I could never learn who he was; and some other perhaps compofed the inscriptions which areen it. I have however a great suspicion that it was made by the Corinthian Eumelus, both from contrasting it with his other works, and especially from the verses which he compofed on Dclos. CHAP. XX. Tthere are other gists too in this place besides the chest. And in the sirst place there is a bed of no great magnitude, for the most part adorned with ivory ; a quoit of Iphitus; and a table on which crowns are placed for conquerors. The bed, indeed, they report to have been the plaything of Hfppodamia : but the quoit of Iphitus was .used by the Eleans for the purpofe of announcing a respite to the Olympic games. This proclamation is written in proper order, but the letters are circularly dispofed about the quoit. The table is made of ivory and gold; and is faid to be the work of Colotes, who derived his origin from Hercules. But thofe that have made more diligent enquiry about artisicers, fay that he was a Parian, and the disciple of Pasiteles who was a self-taught artist. On this table Juno, Jupiter, the Mother of the Gods, Mercury, Apollo, and Diana, are represented. On the back part there is the disposition of the games. On one of the' sides you may see Æsculapius, and, of his daughters, Hygia: there is likewise Mars, and together with him the representation of a battle. But in the other side you may see Pkito and Bacchus, Proferpine and two Nymphs, one of which holds a sphere in her hand, and the other a key. For a key belongs to Pluto; and Hades is faid to be sl;ut so fast by him, that no one can return from thence. It is by no means proper, likewise, that I should omit what Aristarchus th...

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• Unknown Binding
• Publisher: R. Priestley (1824)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000878WV4