THE EASTERN PEDIMENT.

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The Eastern Pediment.

(Fig. 90.)

The remains of the eastern Pedimental group, lately rescued from
the ruins of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia, correspond in the main
to the description of Pausanias ; 1 and there can be no reasonable
doubt of their identity with what he saw some seventeen centuries
ago.

The association of the name of Paeon i us with that of Phcidias,
whose pupil he was supposed to be, naturally led men to expect in
the chief work of the former something of Attic style and Pheidiac
excellence. Those who go to Olympia with such expectations, raised
to the highest pitch by the universal tendency to exaggerate the value
of a new discovery made at a vast expense of labour and money, are
doomed to painful surprise and grievous disappointment It would
be difficult to find a greater contrast in the whole range of ancient
sculptures than that which exists between the marbles of the Par-
thenon, designed by Pheidias, and the group by Paeonius, his supposed
pupil, which we are now considering. If we would do justice to the
works before us, and derive from them the enjoyment they are capable

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