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been a favourite one with the ancient artists, for many3 monuments
are known on which the same scene is represented; and from
them we may form a tolerably correct idea of the figures on that
part of the marble which is unfortunately wanting in the Museum
specimen. It is probable that Achilles, the hero of the subject,
occupied the centre of the picture, and that upon the absent por-
tion were the three Grecian chiefs dispatched to discover his re-
treat. Upon the sarcophagus in the Museo Pio Clementino, where
the subject is treated very much in the same way as upon the
monument before us, Ulysses is represented craftily rejoicing in
the success of his stratagem, and feigning to depart; Diomed
fully armed also seems moving away, but looking back to watch
the movements of Achilles, whose martial spirit is completely
roused by Agyrtes who is sounding a blast upon a war trumpet.4
Achilles and the daughters of Lycomedes are here represented
attired in the same manner, in a long tunic bound round the body
and also round the waist, and a loose peplus varied in form by the
different actions of the wearers ; in his excitement and haste to
seize the shield the hero has displaced this garment from his
3 Cf. Visconti, Mus. Pio Clement, v. tav. 17- Mus. Capitol, iv. tab. 17- Mus. Na-
pol. ii. pi. 60. a bas relief published by Winckelmann, Monum. Inedit. pi. lxxxvii,
another engraved in the vignette of the preface to that work, and now in the Collec-
tion of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey Marbles, pi. vii. a bas relief in the Villa
Panfili at Rome, published by Raoul Rochette, Monumens Inedits de l'Antiquite
figuree, p. 69, pi. xii., one engraved, ibid. pi. x. 3., a sarcophagus at St. Petersburg
published under the title, Das vermeyntliche Grabmal Homers. 1794., four monu-
ments described, Welcker, Zeitschrift fiir Geschichte der alten Kunst, Gottingen,
1818. p. 423-4-5, and several others enumerated, Raoul Rochette, Mon. Ined.
pp. 69,415-6, Miiller, Arch, der Kunst, p. 647. This scene was the subject of
pictures by Polygnotus and Athenion of Maronea, see Pausan. i. 22, 6. Plin. Nat.
Hist. xxxv. 11. s. 40. Achill. Tat. vi. 1. see Welcker. in Philostrat. p. 581. It was
also represented in a mimic dance called, 'A^AAe'coc tv Skvjo^ TrapQtvevmg, Lucian.
de Saltat. c. xlvi.
* cum grande tuba, sic jussus, Agyrtes
Insonuit. Statius, Achill. ii. 201.
cf. Apollod. Philostrat. and Hygin. loc. cit.
been a favourite one with the ancient artists, for many3 monuments
are known on which the same scene is represented; and from
them we may form a tolerably correct idea of the figures on that
part of the marble which is unfortunately wanting in the Museum
specimen. It is probable that Achilles, the hero of the subject,
occupied the centre of the picture, and that upon the absent por-
tion were the three Grecian chiefs dispatched to discover his re-
treat. Upon the sarcophagus in the Museo Pio Clementino, where
the subject is treated very much in the same way as upon the
monument before us, Ulysses is represented craftily rejoicing in
the success of his stratagem, and feigning to depart; Diomed
fully armed also seems moving away, but looking back to watch
the movements of Achilles, whose martial spirit is completely
roused by Agyrtes who is sounding a blast upon a war trumpet.4
Achilles and the daughters of Lycomedes are here represented
attired in the same manner, in a long tunic bound round the body
and also round the waist, and a loose peplus varied in form by the
different actions of the wearers ; in his excitement and haste to
seize the shield the hero has displaced this garment from his
3 Cf. Visconti, Mus. Pio Clement, v. tav. 17- Mus. Capitol, iv. tab. 17- Mus. Na-
pol. ii. pi. 60. a bas relief published by Winckelmann, Monum. Inedit. pi. lxxxvii,
another engraved in the vignette of the preface to that work, and now in the Collec-
tion of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey Marbles, pi. vii. a bas relief in the Villa
Panfili at Rome, published by Raoul Rochette, Monumens Inedits de l'Antiquite
figuree, p. 69, pi. xii., one engraved, ibid. pi. x. 3., a sarcophagus at St. Petersburg
published under the title, Das vermeyntliche Grabmal Homers. 1794., four monu-
ments described, Welcker, Zeitschrift fiir Geschichte der alten Kunst, Gottingen,
1818. p. 423-4-5, and several others enumerated, Raoul Rochette, Mon. Ined.
pp. 69,415-6, Miiller, Arch, der Kunst, p. 647. This scene was the subject of
pictures by Polygnotus and Athenion of Maronea, see Pausan. i. 22, 6. Plin. Nat.
Hist. xxxv. 11. s. 40. Achill. Tat. vi. 1. see Welcker. in Philostrat. p. 581. It was
also represented in a mimic dance called, 'A^AAe'coc tv Skvjo^ TrapQtvevmg, Lucian.
de Saltat. c. xlvi.
* cum grande tuba, sic jussus, Agyrtes
Insonuit. Statius, Achill. ii. 201.
cf. Apollod. Philostrat. and Hygin. loc. cit.