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in monumental and ceramic art few except very crude 

 pictorial delineations, and in books yet fewer written ones, 

 and it would not be easy to reproduce him were it not for 

 a few works of exceptional art which remain to us. One 

 of the most precious relics of the past is a bronze statuette 

 dug up at Herculaneum in 1751, and thought to be a copy 

 of the equestrian statue known to have been made of 

 Alexander the Great by Lysippus, after the battle of the 



STATUE OF ALEXANDER BY LYSIPPUS 



Granicus, when statues of all the brave who fell in this 

 initial Greek victory were made by the famous sculptor. 

 If it is truly a copy of Lysippus' work, we can judge from 

 it how the Macedonians managed their horses in a hand- 

 to-hand conflict. The King is shown sitting on a blanket 

 firmly held in place by a breast-strap and girth ; without 

 dropping the reins from his bridle hand he grasps this 



