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Identifier: antiquegemsrings02king (find matches)
Title: Antique gems and rings
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: King, C. W. (Charles William), 1818-1888
Subjects: Gems Rings Classical antiquities Art, Ancient
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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ANTIQUE GEMS AND RINGS.
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II. Archaic Glyptic art—its favourite subjects.—Df all the uumeroiis Epicscenes, carved and chased upon the Coffer of Cypselus, no more than tworepresent, directly, episodes in the Iliad—these being the Duel betweenHector and Ajax, and the Agamemnon slaying Iphidamas, whom hisbrother Coon is defending. And even in these two scenes, certain variationsin the details of the representation afford reason for suspecting that theywere not borrowed, immediately, from Homers description; for Agamemnonbore emblazoned on his shield the lion-headed $0^09, instead of the Gorgonbegirt with Fear and Terror, which the poet gives for his cognizance. As in the case of the scarabei, so upon this Coffer, the ArgonauticExpedition, and the Tale of Thebes, had supplied by far the largestproportion of the subjects. It is true that the fifth and topmost row ofpanels were explained by the custodian (for here the inscriptions werewanting) as having reference to events from the Odyssey—such asUlysses in

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  • booksubject:Gems
  • booksubject:Rings
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