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7. Minerva seems to guide Pegasus: the goddess had aided
Bellerophon in taming the animal and was thence called ^aXm'rtf,
under which title she was worshipped in a temple at Corinth/9)
8. Another combat.
9. Apollo recovers his tripod from Hercules. The energy and
action of these figures cannot be sufficiently admired.
10. A personage in a chariot guides two horses; the subject of
this metope is in symmetrical correspondence with the 5th.
11. Theseus appears to have vanquished the Minotaur, and to
deliver an Athenian from the labyrinth.
12. Minerva inflicts punishment on Marsyas, who had taken up the
flutes which the goddess had discarded as useless.
13. A single combat.
14. A female in a car rising from the sea: the waves are agitated
by the horses, and the wheels are half immersed; fishes are leaping
from the element. This can be no other than SeX^t? ascending, as
Hesperus immediately above her declines into the ocean.
On the architrave were the golden shields taken from the Per-
sians at Marathon, and suspended here as trophies; they were
afterwards carried away by Lachares.(1) The traces of them are
still distinctly seen, as well as the holes by which the bronze letters,
recording the captor's names, were attached.
PLATE XXII.
THE RESTORATION OF THE WESTERN PEDIMENT.
The Marquis de Nointel found the western pediment far better
preserved than the eastern, and Carrey, whom he employed, had it
in his power, by greater diligence, to have conveyed this masterpiece
* Paus. Corinthiaca, c. iv.
1 Paus. Att. c. xxv.—Lachares, in the time of Demetrius, son of Antigonus, who
for a short time had tyrannized over the Athenians, fled into Bceotia (B. C. 296,)
and carried with him the golden shields from the Acropolis, and the ornaments
which could be stripped from the statue of Minerva.
7. Minerva seems to guide Pegasus: the goddess had aided
Bellerophon in taming the animal and was thence called ^aXm'rtf,
under which title she was worshipped in a temple at Corinth/9)
8. Another combat.
9. Apollo recovers his tripod from Hercules. The energy and
action of these figures cannot be sufficiently admired.
10. A personage in a chariot guides two horses; the subject of
this metope is in symmetrical correspondence with the 5th.
11. Theseus appears to have vanquished the Minotaur, and to
deliver an Athenian from the labyrinth.
12. Minerva inflicts punishment on Marsyas, who had taken up the
flutes which the goddess had discarded as useless.
13. A single combat.
14. A female in a car rising from the sea: the waves are agitated
by the horses, and the wheels are half immersed; fishes are leaping
from the element. This can be no other than SeX^t? ascending, as
Hesperus immediately above her declines into the ocean.
On the architrave were the golden shields taken from the Per-
sians at Marathon, and suspended here as trophies; they were
afterwards carried away by Lachares.(1) The traces of them are
still distinctly seen, as well as the holes by which the bronze letters,
recording the captor's names, were attached.
PLATE XXII.
THE RESTORATION OF THE WESTERN PEDIMENT.
The Marquis de Nointel found the western pediment far better
preserved than the eastern, and Carrey, whom he employed, had it
in his power, by greater diligence, to have conveyed this masterpiece
* Paus. Corinthiaca, c. iv.
1 Paus. Att. c. xxv.—Lachares, in the time of Demetrius, son of Antigonus, who
for a short time had tyrannized over the Athenians, fled into Bceotia (B. C. 296,)
and carried with him the golden shields from the Acropolis, and the ornaments
which could be stripped from the statue of Minerva.