HEAD OF A STATUE OF A BOY FROM SPARTA. 307 
retrouvent dans notre téte d’Héraclés.”! Here we have a head of a 
youthful Herakles (or of some hero who has borrowed his attribute of 
the lion’s skin—perhaps Telephos), which, if not by Skopas himself, 
is still a work of his school reproducing all his characteristics; conse- 
quently, of all these heads from Tegea, it.is with this one chiefly 
that we should compare the head from Sparta similarly covered with a 
lion’s scalp. 
Though badly injured, it is still possible to see in this head of the 
so-called Herakles found at Tegea, both in full view and in profile, the 

Fic. 73.—So-called Head of Herakles, from 
Tegea, by Skopas. National Museum, 
Athens. 
characteristic Skopaic expression of passion, and to discover the means 
by which the artist effected it. “The expression is due in great measure 
to the upward direction of the gaze, and to the heavy overshadowing 
of the deep-set eyes. It is further enhanced by the contracted brow, 
dilated nostril, and half-open, almost panting, mouth, whose parted lips 
clearly disclose the teeth. The structure of the head is in keeping 
with the strength of character portrayed; the skull is very deep from 
front to back, and its framework is massive and bony; the face is broad 
and short and the chin is heavy; everything emphasizes the impression 
of a virile and muscular warrior violently engaged in the fray. The 
subjects of the two pedimental groups—the Kalydonian boar hunt and 
the battle between Achilles and Telephos—justified the expression of 
10,.c.,p.259. The head has been restored by a German sculptor, and the chin appears to have 
been made too retreating: see Encyl. Brit., 11th ed., vol. XII, s. v. “Greek Art,” PI. III, fig. 63. 
