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EXTANT WORKS OF ARCHAIC ART.

the goddess, which is treated with a skill worthy of a period not later
than the latter half of the sixth century. The contrast between the
robed goddess and the nude giant is very striking and effective. The
second of these metopes, in which the upper part of the figures is
also wanting, is very similar in design, though of much superior
execution. In this, too, the giant has ceased to resist, and has fallen
on one knee, as if forced down by the heavy hand of the irresistible
Goddess. He is without the serpent feet of the later type of giants,

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act/eon and his dogs.

and wears a leather coat over his short tunic, and perhaps the skin of
some animal.1

The metopes of a third and still later Temple of Here on the
eastern hill of Selinus, not earlier than the Soth Olympiad (460
B.C.), show still further progress, and yet maintain the Doric character
of the earliest Selinuntian reliefs. The subjects are :—

(a) Heracles, with his lion's skin, in combat with an Amazon,

1 Benndorf (Sclin. Mttop.) dates these 415 the Dorian Polycleitos to the Discobolos in

11.c, after the building of the Parthenon, and the Sala delta Biga of the Vatican, tupposed

says that they stand to the Parthenon frieze to be a copy of a work of the Attic Myron,
in the same relation as the Doryphoros of