Saturday, August 07, 2021

 

Portrait of the Blogger

John Boardman et al., edd., The Oxford History of the Classical World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 289:
IAMOS, from the east pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, completed in 546 BC. The artist has carefully observed the flaccid, ageing body, and in the gesture and features he expresses the old seer's anticipation of disaster.



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