Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . e birthof the Athene, while in the pedimentat the back of the temple (the western)is represented the strife between Atheneand Poseidon for the (Attic) land.(2.) There are extant of the eastern pedi-ment five figures or fragments of figuresbelonging to the left or northern angleof the pediment and four to the rightor southern. (3.) It is universally ad-mitted that the head, arms, and shoul-der of the male figure rising at the leftor northern angle, and driving thehorses whose heads and necks appear be-fore him towards the cent
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . e birthof the Athene, while in the pedimentat the back of the temple (the western)is represented the strife between Atheneand Poseidon for the (Attic) land.(2.) There are extant of the eastern pedi-ment five figures or fragments of figuresbelonging to the left or northern angleof the pediment and four to the rightor southern. (3.) It is universally ad-mitted that the head, arms, and shoul-der of the male figure rising at the leftor northern angle, and driving thehorses whose heads and necks appear be-fore him towards the centre, belong tothe sun-god Helios driving his horses;while in the descending female figure,driving the horses whose heads are justvisible as they descend at the right orsouthern angle, we have Selene, themoon-goddess, driving her horses. It isfurthermore universally admitted thatthe centre of the composition, of whichno figure is now extant, contained thechief gods and goddesses of ancientGreece. (4.) The western pediment con-tained twenty figures, of which ten were. Left Half of Carreys Drawing of the Western Pediment Kephissos and Olympos from the Parthenon Pediments, the Dresden Statuette on Table in Foreground on either side of the centre, and thechariot of Athene and Poseidon and theanimals drawing them. (5.) In the centrewere Athene and Poseidon in violentmovement. (6.) The chariot of Athenewas almost certainly driven by Nike ( Vic-tory), and that of Poseidon by Amphi-trite. (7.) At the extreme angle to theright of Athene (our left) the recliningfigure is almost certainly a river-god,probably Kephissos, and the correspond-ing figures at the opposite angle partakeof the same nature. Here the facts end. Fortunately, how-ever, but a few years before the destruc-tion by the Venetians, the Marquis deNointel, ambassador of Louis XIV. tothe Porte, stopped at Athens on his wayhomewards, in No-vember, 1674, andwas so much struckwith the beauties(11 the Parthenonthat he boughtfrom th
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