08-29-2011, 06:43 PM
Quote:The website states that this shows the fight between Eteokles und Polyneikes.
Ah, thanks. So the lady in the middle is a personification of Thebes, then? I wonder what the significance of that might be?
I've just noticed that in the first frieze above the horseman appears to have shot the barbarian on the right in the eye with an arrow, after shooting the one on the left in the throat! Some notable feat of arms, perhaps? hock:
Nathan Ross