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. 1886 Excerpt: ...Inst. Arch. 1855, pi. 19; fourteen are vase paintings. 3 Pausanias, iii. 18. 8 Pausanias, v. 19. 4 Plato, Phaedon, 89: "Heracles is not a match for two." 6 Plutarch on Brotherly Love. the side of Heracles, --this being notably the case upon the sarcophagus in Rome, referred to in a preceding note. The legend of the ...
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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. 1886 Excerpt: ...Inst. Arch. 1855, pi. 19; fourteen are vase paintings. 3 Pausanias, iii. 18. 8 Pausanias, v. 19. 4 Plato, Phaedon, 89: "Heracles is not a match for two." 6 Plutarch on Brotherly Love. the side of Heracles, --this being notably the case upon the sarcophagus in Rome, referred to in a preceding note. The legend of the hospitable reception in the cave of the centaur particularly relates that Pholos and Heracles were drinking the tempting wine from great cups1 when interrupted; and as an indication of the original cause of the combat Iolaos holds in one hand a drinking-vessel, raising the other as in encouragement. The appearance of this figure seems almost a reminiscence of the ever-present followers of the victorious Assyrian monarchs upon Oriental reliefs. Judging from the width of the inter-columniations, and the position of the middle regula, this epistyle block is, upon the upper surface, preserved in its entire length. Were it not for this, and for the fact that the sculptured representations were limited to the fields of the separate lintel blocks, it might be more natural to assume that the fragmentary figure was that of the centaur Pholos, --to whom the attribute of the drinkingvessel would more directly appertain. But it is hardly possible that the body of a horse could have found room upon the left of the epistyle relief. The appearance of two upright human figures is certainly better in artistic effect than if Heracles had been wedged in between the greater bulk of centaurs upon either side, without reference to a symmetrical composition of the opponents. Heracles bends his bow against three centaurs, who hasten away with brutish gestures of fear, throwing their arms wildly into the air and running so closely together that each oversteps the...
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