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

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LYCIAN ART.

we see the Attic artist following the guidance of his own fertile
genius, and embodying his ideas in absolute freedom from all foreign
influences. In the friezes, or at least the broader lower frieze, of
the basis, we see the same magic Ariel spirit, not sporting at its own
sweet will in the realms of fancy, but performing piecework in bitter
bondage, constrained ' to the strong bidding task,' stooping to pour-
tray the common deeds of men in common guise.

The discoverer of this very interesting monument of Greek art
modified by Asiatic influences dates the sculptures as early as 500
B.C., and thinks that the sculptors of the Parthenon and Phigalcian
reliefs are 'convicted of plagiarism} and that Pericles, wishing to
adorn Athens, sent to Asia Minor for workmen. ' This monument,'
he adds,' would indicate the employment of Ionians as designers of the
fittest of Attic works !'1

We can only account for an opinion so little in accordance with
history by regarding it as one of the many instances in past and
present times of the exaggerated value attached by discoverers to
their own discoveries.

1 Fellows' 'Account of the Ionic Trophy Monument.'