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The birth of Athena in art

If the painter of that vase was indeed, as we have supposed1,
copying the recently erected Parthenon pediment, then it follows
that the beautiful device of giving wings to Hermes'

head—a

device with a future before it2—must be ascribed to Pheidias
himself3. Again, it has long been known that the restful attitude
of the supported foot, a favourite motive with Lysippos4, 1S
found in the west frieze of the Parthenon, where twice over a
youth wearing a chlamys is seen raising his left foot on a rock to
tie his shoe-string or fasten his sandal-strap5. But now we perceive
that Lysippos, who employed the same stance for his wonderful
multifacial Hermes6, was inspired not by a Pheidiac relief but by a

1 Supra pp. 692, 704.

2 It came to be used, not only for Hermes (C. Scherer in Roscher Lex. Myth, i- H00'
2422), but also for the Gorgon (J. Six De Gorgone Amstelodami 1885 p. 70 ff.)> * eI
(on cap or helmet, but not head: see F. Knatz Quomodo Persei fabulam artifice* aJ^c
et Romani tractaverint Bonnae 1893 pp. 28 ff., 43, Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Crete ^
p. 119 pi. 27, 3), Hypnos (B. Sauer in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 2849 ff0> tlie wind'g°
(H. Steinmetz in the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1910 xxv. 33 ff. pi- 3)> etc'. . ajs

3 On Hermes with winged head in existing copies of fifth- and fourth-century orig
see Furtwangler in the Journ. Hell. Stud. 1901 xxi. 214 f. pi. n f., Farnell Cults 0]
States v. 54f.pl. 24 f.

4 K. Lange Das Motiv des aufgestiitzlen Fusses tn der antiken ICunst una
statuarische Verwendung durch Lysippos Leipzig 1879 Passim. [

5 A. S. Murray The Sculptures of the Parthenon London 1903 pp- I23> ^
A. H. Smith The Sculptures of the Parthenon London 1910 pi. 65, 12 and pi- 7 '
M. Collignon Le Parthhion Paris (1909—1912) pi. 78, 29 and pi. 83, 12. . g_

6 Collignon Hist, de la Sculpt, gr. ii. 420 ff. fig. 220, id. Lysippe Paris 1905 IM^jj
fig. 16, E. Loewy The Rendering of Nature in early Greek Art trans. J- 0 £f.
London 1907 p. 87 f. fig. 40, F. P. Johnson Lysippos Duke Univ. Press 1927 P-

pi. 30 f., G. Lippold in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. xiv. 58. The bronze origin* ^
in the gymnasium called Zeuxippos at Byzantion shortly before 532 A.D.,
building was destroyed by fire (Anth. Pal. 2. 297 ff. (Christodoros)). 'eties ot

W. Klein Praxitelische Studien Leipzig 1899 p. 4 ff. distinguished two va^..(,|iaelis
the sandal-binding ' Hermes.' The statue in the Lansdowne collection (A- - Tparnell
Ancient Marbles in Great Britain Cambridge 1882 p. 464 ff. no. 85 with p "
Cults of Gk. States v. 58 f. pi. 30) and the torso at Athens (F. Studniczka W^ ...^ jg
Mitth. 1886 xi. 362 ff. pi. 9, 1, Einzelaufnahmen nos. 733 and 734 witn e. ujndiug
by P. Arndt, Reinach Rip. Slat. ii. 153 no. 10) he compares with the san ^ ^putt-
Nike of the Nike-balustrade and assigns to Lysippos. The copies at Munic^^rt
wangler G/yptothek zu Miittchen p. 291 ff. no. 287, ib." p. 309 ff. no. 287, id. £'n g^,
Tafeln nach den Bildwerken der kgl. Glyptothek zu Miinchen Mtinchen in32
P. Wolters Ftihrer durch die Glyptothek Kbnig Ludwigs i. zu Miinchen Mur>c he
p. 43 f. no. 287 with pi.) and Paris (Frohner Sculpt, du Louvre i. 2 to ff. no^ qC the
regards as representing an athlete, compares with the figures on the west rccepted W
Parthenon, and attributes to a pre-Lysippean master. Klein's results were- ^ g,

E. von Mach A Handbook of Greek and Roman Sculpture Boston I9°5 P"

n-

pi. 238 a, b, but by nobody else (see e.g. Furtwangler Glyptothek zu Miinchen p- ^n
ib? p. 312 f. n., F. P. Johnson op. cit. p. 172 f.), and later were abandonee
himself (W. Klein Geschichte der griechischen Kunst Leipzig I9°5 u"

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