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Symmetry on the Chest of Cypselus at Olympia (Pausanias V. 17–19)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

John L. Myres
Affiliation:
Oxford

Extract

Much has been written about the bronze reliefs which decorated the ‘Chest of Cypselus’ at Olympia; but the general arrangements of them in five zones (Χωραί) being once established, the subjects of the reliefs in each have usually been considered separately, without regard to their relative position within a zone, or any rhythm or balance among them. Yet so important a work of art, of the date traditionally ascribed to it, was surely not a mere crowd of independent topics, unconnected by their general arrangement in a larger composition, however miscellaneous the occasions or personages which they represented. Earlier reconstructions are summarised and discussed by H. Stuart Jones, JHS XIV 30-80, PI. I.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1946

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