_To face page_ THE VIRGIN. From Michael Angelo’s “Pieta.” St. Peter’s, Rome _Frontispiece_ DIANA (Archaistic). The National Museum, Naples 12 DEDICATORY STATUE (Archaic). The Acropolis Museum, Athens 12 HARMODIUS. National Museum, Naples 14 THE CHARIOTEER. Delphi Museum 14 THE SPARTAN GIRL. The Vatican, Rome 18 THE DORYPHORUS. National Museum, Naples 18 MYRON’S DISCOBOLUS. The Ashmolean, Oxford 22 THESEUS. British Museum. A figure from the Eastern Pediment of the Parthenon 30 THE THREE FATES. British Museum. A group from the Eastern Pediment of the Parthenon 30 From THE PARTHENON FRIEZE. British Museum. Scenes from the Panathenaic Procession 32 ZEUS. The Vatican, Rome. Found at Otricoli 36 HERA. Terme Museum, Rome. From the Villa Ludovisi 36 HERA. The Vatican, Rome 40 THE MAUSOLEUM CHARIOTEER. British Museum, London 48 NIOBE. The Glyptothek, Munich 50 MENELAUS AND PATROCLUS. Loggia de Lonzi, Florence 52 ARES LUDOVISI. The Vatican, Rome 52 THE “DEXILEUS” RELIEF. The Ceramicus, Athens 54 THE HERMES (head). By Praxiteles. Olympia 58 THE “EROS” TORSO. The Vatican, Rome. Found at Centocelle 60 APHRODITE OF CNIDUS. The Vatican, Rome 62 THE APOXYOMENUS. The Vatican, Rome 68 MELEAGER. The Vatican, Rome 68 THE SARCOPHAGUS OF ALEXANDER. Constantinople 74 PHOCION. The Vatican, Rome 76 PERICLES. British Museum 78 THE HEAD OF ALEXANDER (after Lysippus). British Museum 78 THE TYCHE OF ANTIOCH. The Vatican, Rome 86 THE DYING GAUL. The Capitoline Museum, Rome 88 THE TRIUMPH OF ATHENA. From the Altar of Zeus, Pergamus. Berlin 92 THE LAOCOON GROUP. The Vatican, Rome 94 THE NILE. The Vatican, Rome 96 THE FARNESE HERCULES. National Museum, Naples 100 THE CERIGOTTO BRONZE. The Museum, Athens 102 THE APOLLO BELVEDERE. The Vatican, Rome 106 VENUS OF MEDICI. The Uffizi, Florence 106 VENUS OF MILO. The Louvre, Paris 112 BOY STRANGLING A GOOSE. The Louvre, Paris 114 CHILD WITH LANTERN. Terme Museum, Rome 114 THE BOXER (Bronze). Terme Museum, Rome 120