DOI article:
Essay VIII: The Athene Parthenos and gold and ivory statues
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.11444#0301
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made them; for of these too each one appears from without a Poseidon or a most
beautiful Zeus of gold and ivory holding in the right hand a thunderbolt or the
lightning or the trident; but if you stoop down and look within, you will see some
bars, clamps and nails driven through and fastening it, and logs and wedges and tar
and clay and many similar ugly things......
Lucian, Gallusi 24.
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......being like unto those colossal statues as Phcidias or Myron or Praxiteles
made them; for of these too each one appears from without a Poseidon or a most
beautiful Zeus of gold and ivory holding in the right hand a thunderbolt or the
lightning or the trident; but if you stoop down and look within, you will see some
bars, clamps and nails driven through and fastening it, and logs and wedges and tar
and clay and many similar ugly things......
Lucian, Gallusi 24.