PLATE XLVII
Poseidon
This conception of Poseidon is infinitely nobler than that appearing on p. 6, although the two portraits endow him with the same attributes. Here the god seems to have just emerged from his home beneath the waves, and now, standing as on an eminence and surveying his vast domains, is about to cry out to the elements to obey his will. From a late Hellenistic marble (second or first century b.c.), found in Melos and now in Athens (Brunn-Bruckmann, Denkmäler griechischer und römischer Sculptur, No. 550).
