Wonders of sculpture . of ruins and rubbish. With thesemodels before our eyes, it requires but little atten-tion and consideration to restore everything to itsplace in our imagination, and from these scatteredfragments entirely to rebuild the work of Pheidias. It consists of three principal parts—the frieze,the metopes, and the pediments. The exteriorfrieze of the cella, or sanctuary, inside the colonnadeor peristyle, which entirely surrounded the cella,was simply called the frieze. It consists of a longseries of marble slabs, succeeding each otherwithout interruption, of equal proportions, al
Wonders of sculpture . of ruins and rubbish. With thesemodels before our eyes, it requires but little atten-tion and consideration to restore everything to itsplace in our imagination, and from these scatteredfragments entirely to rebuild the work of Pheidias. It consists of three principal parts—the frieze,the metopes, and the pediments. The exteriorfrieze of the cella, or sanctuary, inside the colonnadeor peristyle, which entirely surrounded the cella,was simply called the frieze. It consists of a longseries of marble slabs, succeeding each otherwithout interruption, of equal proportions, all sculp-tured in bas-relief, and all relating to one subject, GEACJAX SCULPTUnE. 163 so that it is easy to see what place each one oc-cupied in the original plan. The subject is theo-eneral procession of the grand Panathenaic(Panathenaia) fetes, instituted in honour of Minerva,by the old King Erichthonius (1500 ), when thegoddess of Athens was proclaimed goddess ofall Attica. They were celebrated once every four.
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