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Roo^xv. waters on the opposite angle of the same pedi- 
ANTiauiTiEs. ment (Nos. 65^ 66). 
No. 69. The torso of Victoria Apteros, or 
Victory without wings, who was represented in 
this manner by the Athenians, to intimate that 
they held her gifts in perpetuity, and that she 
could not desert them. This goddess was repre¬ 
sented driving the car of Minerva, on the west 
pediment of the Faiihenon | the car approached 
Minerva, as if to receive her into it, after her 
successful contest with Neptune. 
No. 70. A recumbent statue supposed to be 
of the river-god Ilissus. The Ilissus was a small 
stream that ran along the south side of the plain 
of Athens, This figure, which, with the excep- ^ 
tion of the Theseus, is the finest in the collec¬ 
tion, occupied the left angle of the west pedi¬ 
ment of the Parthenon. 
No. 71. A statue of Theseus, the Athenian 
hero ; he is represented half reclined on a rock, 
which is covered with the skin of a lion. The¬ 
seus, it is well known, professedly imitated the 
character of Hercules; and it is worthy of-re¬ 
mark, that the attitude here given to Theseus 
is very similar to that of Hercules on some of 
the coins of Crotona. This wonderfully fine 
statue originally occupied a place in the east 
pediment of the Parthenon, next to the horses 
of Hyperion. 
No. 72. A torso of Victory, from the east 
pediment 
