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

THE TEMPLE OF ATHENA ALE A AT TEGEA. 379

son of Kerkyon, and Peiritlwus. The group in the western pediment
represented the combat between Achilles and Telephits'm the plain of the
Cai'cus near Pergamon. The old temple-image of the Goddess, which
was of ivory, was taken away by Augustus because Tegea favoured
Antony ; he also removed the tusks of the boar, leaving nothing but the
hide. The site of the temple has been quite recently excavated, without
any great result, by Milchhofer,1 and was subsequently examined by the
architects Adler and Dorpfeld. The plastic remains, which were recog-
nised as works of Scopas by Treu, are heads of two youthful heroes,
and the mutilated head of the Calydonian Boar from the eastern pedi-
ment. The human heads also belonged to one of the pediments, as
they arc only finished on one side.- The interior Doric pillars are
five feet in diameter, a fact which enables us to form an idea of the
size of the larger external pillars, and the vast extent of the whole
building.3

It seems probable that Scopas subsequently superintended the
erection of the Temple of Asklepios at Gortys 4 (W. of its metropolis,
Tegea), on a tributary of the Alpheius, which was 90 feet in length
by 45 feet in breadth, and of Pentclican marble—the only temple of
that material in the Peloponnesus. For this sanctuary Scopas fur-
nished the statues of Asklepios and Ilygieia, the former of which was
represented, for the first time probably, without a beard.

One of his earlier works, perhaps the earliest, was an Aphrodite
Pandcmos, the only one executed in bronze, while he was still under
the influence of his father, or brother, Aristandros, who worked exclu-
sively in that metal. The Goddess is here sitting on a goat, from
which it has been inferred, rather hastily perhaps,5 that she is repre-
sented in her lowest and most sensual character as the patroness of

1 Mitlhcil. ,1. daiisch. Arch. lust, in
A then, iv. p. 133.

1 Conf. Treu, Aichacol. Zeitung, 1SS0, p.
98. All these remains nre at Piali. The
'leads are of the same Doliana marble as the

temple itself.

8 DodweH's Tour, &*c. ii. 419. Conf.
Urlichs, .Scopas, p. 18.
' I'ausan. viii. 28. I.

' Vid. Urlichs, Skopas, p. 5. There is a
relief of Aphrodite Epitragux on an elegant

black vase at Odessa, representing a female,
clothed in a mantle which covers her right
arm, but leaves her left arm and head free,
seated sideways on a goat {Archacol. Zcit. ix.
p. 375). The Aphrodite l'andcmos and the
Aphrodite Urania are contrasted in an epi-
gram of Theocritus (Anthol. Pal. vi. 340):—

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