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Greek Sculpture. 195 Our limits will admit of only a few words on the numerous monuments of Greece belonging to this age. The sculptures of friezes and metopes of the Theseium, or Temple of Theseus at Athens, represent incidents in the life of Theseus, treated with the greatest boldness and freedom. Closely resembling them are the friezes of the Ionic temple of Nike Apteros (Victory, wingless), on the Acropolis, the first reliefs executed in the white marble of Pentelicus. Portions of them are in the British Museum, Fig. 80. — Group from the Eastern frieze of the Parthenon. and casts of them, and of an exquisite figure of Winged Victory, which adorned a parapet between the little temple of Nike Apteros and the ascent to the Propylsea, are in the Crystal Palace collection. The sculptures of the Parthenon, which were brought to England by Lord Elgin in the year 1816, are preserved in the room bearing his name in the British Museum, where may also be seen two small models of the temple, one in its present condition, and one as it was in the time of Pericles. The bas-reliefs sculptured on the frieze of the Parthenon are among the very grandest works of ancient o 2