Westropp, Hodder M.: Handbook of archaeology: Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman (London, 1867)

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Elder Hercules.
Busts :—

In the British Museum.
Statues :—

The Farnese Hercules, Naples.

The Torso Bel vide re, Vatican.

Hercules and Aniens, Pitti Palace, Florence.

Small statues in the British Museum.

Theseus.
In sculpture, not less than mythology, the heroic form of Theseus
was, as early as thePhidian school, fashioned after that of Hercules ;
lie received, however, a less compact structure of hody, one which
esjiecially indicated activity in wrestling, a less compressed and
more graceful form of countenance, and short hut less crisped hair;
his costume is usually the lion's hide and club, sometimes also the
ehlamys and petasus, after the manner of Attic ephehi. His contest
with the Amazons, and his vanquishing the Minotaur, form the
chief subjects of his myth.
Statues :—

Theseus, Pediment of Parthenon, British Museum.

AMAZONS.

Iii statues and reliefs they were represented in simple light
drapery, and with strong rounded forms of the limbs, which were

given to them at the Polyclitan period. They are usually repre-
sented in the Doric chiton.