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

THE MONUMENT OF LYSICRATES.

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CHAPTER XL.

EXTANT WORKS OF THIS PERIOD BY
UNKNOWN AUTHORS.

WE have already noticed the chief works of this period, the actual

Fig. 204.

execution or design of which could
be attributed to the greatest artists—
such as the Hermes with the infant
Dionysos, the Demeter of Cnidos, the
Niobe group, the Sculptures of the Mau-
soleum, the Marriage of Poseidon and
Amphitritc, &c. There are, however,
other remains evidently belonging to this
period, to which we can assign the
name of no author. A work of this
kind bearing clear traces of the school of
Scopas is

The frieze of the Clwragic Monu-
ment of Lysicrates (fig. 204) (' the
Lantern of Demosthenes ') in Athens. E
The Choregos, or trainer of a musical J
choir, received a prize, generally a tri-
pod, when the musicians whom he had
trained were successful in a competi-
tion. The tripods thus acquired were r
generally placed on the top of a small
temple or monument on the eastern
slope of the Acropolis, and hence the

mom mknt of i.ysicr.

name 'tripod street' in this quarter of athkns