Rambles and studies in Greece . way on the limitedsurface of the Acropolis. The principal of the old sculptures as yet found[cf. Figure) is a very stiff, and, to us, comical figure,which has lost its legs, but is otherwise fairlypreserved, and which depicts a male figure withcurious conventional hair, and still more conven- 1 I endeavoured to examine these drums by looking down through ahole in the wall over them. They seemed to me not (luted, and ratherof the shape of barrels, very thick in the middle, than of the drums ofother pillars in temples. I was therefore at a loss to know how theywer
Rambles and studies in Greece . way on the limitedsurface of the Acropolis. The principal of the old sculptures as yet found[cf. Figure) is a very stiff, and, to us, comical figure,which has lost its legs, but is otherwise fairlypreserved, and which depicts a male figure withcurious conventional hair, and still more conven- 1 I endeavoured to examine these drums by looking down through ahole in the wall over them. They seemed to me not (luted, and ratherof the shape of barrels, very thick in the middle, than of the drums ofother pillars in temples. I was therefore at a loss to know how theywere applied in the older Parthenon, but forgot to get it explained bye local archaeologist who had studied the point. * It is asserted somewhere by a Greek author that the templesburned by the iersians were left in ruins to remind the people of thewrongs of the hated barbarians. J>ut wc have distinct evidence, incases, that this assertion is not true, and besides, using the ma-terials for other purposes is not the same MARATHON1AM IHKSl » (l- in.] ATHENS—THE MUSEUMS. tional beard, holding by its four legs a bull or calf,which he is carrying on his shoulders. The eyesare now hollow, and were evidently once filledwith something different from the marble of whichthe statue is made. The whole pose and style ofthe work is stiff and expressionless, and it is one ofthe few certain remains of the older Attic art stillin existence. To me there is little doubt what the statue is the votive offering of the Marathonians, whichPausanias saw in the Acropolis, and which com-memorated the legend of Theseus having driventhe wild bull sent them by Minos from Marathonto the Acropolis, where he sacrificed it. Pausaniasdoes not say how Theseus was represented with thebull; but it certainly was not a group—such athing is clearly beyond the narrow and timid con-ceptions of the artists of that day. It being impos-sible to represent a man and bull together exceptby representing t
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