A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of ... - Warburg Institute

EAST FEIEZE OF THESEION. 225fray, merely sit and watcli. This, however, is a schemeof Gigantomachia to which no parallel can be adduced.Brunn (Sitzungsher. der Te. hayer. AJcad. PJiil.-hist. CI.,1874, ii., p. 51), supposes the battle here represented tobe that fought by the Athenians under Theseus againstFig. 17.—The disposition of the Kast Frieze.(From Banmeister.)Eurystheus in defence of the Heracleidae. The scene onthe left would thus represent the first rout of the troopsof Eurystheus ; then would come the storming of theSkironian pass by Theseus, where we might expect massesof rocks to be hurled on the assailants. The kneelingQ