A group from the Forman Vase in the British
Museum. 5th century B.C.

SOPHOCLES

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Photogravure Frontispiece

From a marble bust in the British Museum. The
original, of which this is an ancient copy,
was probably of the 5th century B.C.

EDIPUS AND THE SPHINX

From a painting in the interior of a cup in the
Museo Gregoriano in Rome. (The letters
Kai Tρí[πOV, issuing from the Sphinx' mouth,
are part of the riddle.

TEIRESIAS BEFORE EDIPUS

From a vase formerly in Naples. 4th century B.C. FINDING OF EDIPUS BY EUPHORBOS

From a vase formerly in the Beugnot Collection.
5th century B.C.

CONTEST OF ATHENA AND POSEIDON FOR THE
ATTIC LAND

From a vase in the Hermitage Museum, St. Peters-
burg. 5th century BC.

TYPES OF GREEK CAVALRY

A group from the Forman Vase in the British
Museum. 5th century B.C.

THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES

From a sarcophagus in the Villa Pamfili, show-
ing the quarrel of Eteocles and Polynices,
with Jocaste and Antigone intervening; in
the background, blind Edipus; Capaneus
with storming ladder; Amphiaraus in
chariot, and dead chieftains; Eteocles and
Polynices killing each other; Antigone re-
moving corpse of Polynices from beside the
sleeping watchmen. Roman period,

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Portion of drum of sculptured column from
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, in the British
Museum. 4th century B.C.

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STELE WITH EPITAPH OF EDIPUS.

From a vase in the Museo Nazionale at Naples.
4th century B.C.

ANTIGONE BROUGHT BEFORE CREON

From a vase in the Berlin Museum, 4th cen-
tury B.C.

Bronze Mirror Case in the British Museum,
4th century B.C.

LYCURGUS SMITTEN WITH MADNESS DESTROYING

HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN

On p. 180 are Apollo, Hermes, and (probably)
Lyssa ("Madness"); on p. 181 Lycurgus
destroying his family. From a vase in
the British Museum. 4th century B.C.

DIONYSUS WITH HIS THIASOS OF SATYRS AND

MAENADS

From a vase in the British Museum. 4th cen-
tury B.C.

From the Kylix painted by Sotades in the British
Museum, 4th century B.C.

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