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

THE AMAZON OF THE NEW ATTIC SCHOOL. 411

Fig. 174.

greeks and amazons.

(evnriros) sitting in fearless ease with her back to her horse's head,
and drawing her bow against an enemy (fig. 176). Her rearing horse
meanwhile is striking with his foreleg at a Greek before him.

The difference between Fig. 175.

the older and the younger
Attic schools, of which we
have spoken above, is seen
not only in the greater bold-
ness and variety of concep-
tion, and the unbounded free-
dom of execution displayed in
this frieze, but in the psychical
and moral tone which per-
vades it. Even in the Phi-
galeian marbles the face is
left almost void of expres-
sion, while here it is made to
reflect the most vivid emo-
tions of the soul—wrath,
fear, suppliant pathos, and compassion. The tendency of the age

slab n, from mausoleum frieze.