Perry, Walter Copland: Greek and Roman sculpture: a popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture (London, 1882)

i24 EXTANT MONUMENTS OF FIFTH CENTURY B.C.

of the western pediment (fig. 51) the artist probably intended to re-
present Ajax, the /Eacid, son of Telamon (no. 1), rescuing the body of

Achilles (fig. 51, no. 2) from his foes, following, as Welckcr thinks, the
/Ethiopis of Arctinus the Milesian. The Grecian arch er is 'Fencer
(fig. 51, no. 3), the half-brother of Ajax. On the Trojan side we have