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252 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.belong to a scheme not intro'lTiced in the 5th centurysculpture; more free play of humour is admitted. Atthe same time Attic schemes of composition presentthemselves, which had already come into use inof Pheidias.the timeThis frieze is a remarkable example of the Greek powerof combining variety and symmetry. On the right andleft of Dionysos the groups correspond with greataccuracy, but the correspondent groups always differ onefrom another. On each side of the God we have anattendant Satyr ; a Satyr with a crater ; a Satyr watchingthe conflict ; a Satyr hastening to join it ; a Satyrkneeling on a pirate; a Satyr about to strike a piratethrown to the ground; a Satyr breaking off a branchfrom a tree ; a pirate, half transformed, leaping into thesea. The remainder of the frieze is less exactly symmetrical.Wheler, Journey, p. 397 ; Spon, Voyage (ed. 1679), II., p. 132. Aview of the monument from the monastery garden is shown inStuart, I., chap. IV., pi. 1. The view from the street is inLe Roy, Ruines, pi. 13. A view of the interior used as a library,Dodwell, Tour, I., pi. facing p. 289. A view subsequent to thedestruction of the monastery is given, Exp. de Morde, III.,pi. 96. For the present state of the monument see Harrison,Mythology and Monuments of Anc. Athens, p. 245. The originalfrieze is of Pentelic marble; height, lOJ inches.Stuart, I., ch. IV.,pis. 1-26. Stuart's drawings which are freely restored arethe basis of the inaccurate plate in Stuart, 2nd ed., Vol. I.,ch. IV., pi. 30. The illustrations in most of the text-books arederived from the latter plate ; e.g., Miiller, Denkmdler, pi. 37 ;Overbeck, Gr. Plast., 3rd ed., II., p. 91. These works all repeatan erroneous order of the two groups of No. 8, which spoils thesymmetry of the frieze ; cf. Murray, II., p. 333. An independentand more accurate publication is that in Mas. Marbles, IX.,pis. 22-26, taken from the Elgin casts. See also Ellis, ElginMarbles, II., pp. 79-87. The Bi-itish Museum also possesses acareful series of drawings from the sculptures, by Lord Elgin'sartist, Lusicri.Wolters, No. 1328.Eeport of the Elgin Committee, appendix, p. xli.