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

I'll EI BIAS UNDER PERICLES. r8i

CHAPTER XVII.

P HEIDI AS UNDER THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF

PERICLES.

But though Cimon did much to encourage art, and was able to
employ Pheidias in his earlier years, his administration was but the
dawn of the glorious day which broke on Athens when Pericles
and Pheidias reigned respectively in the world of politics and the

Fig. 71.

view ok the acroi-oi.1s of athens restored.

world of art. Their gigantic projects for the restoration and adorn-
ment of the city were carried out with the same vigour with which
they were conceived. In the astoundingly short period of about
twenty years, nearly all the great buildings of Athens and Attica