Creations of Phidias

Usage examples of statues.

The Pool of Curtius, the sacred trees, Scipio Africanus atop his tall column, the beaks of captured ships mounted on more columns, statues galore on imposing plinths glaring furiously like old Appius Claudius the Blind or looking smugly serene like wily and brilliant old Scaurus Princeps Senatus.

Pausing for only a moment as she realized they had reached her destination, Kahlan set her snowshoes firmly into the snowdrift that covered the steps, and ascended to the portico, its fascia decorated with a row of statues swathed in cut stone that mimicked the drape of cloth so well it seemed as if it might move in the light breeze.

Flanking the rope-carved stone arch at the far end stood life-size statues of Queen Bernadine and King Wyborn, each holding a spear and shield in one hand, the queen a sheaf of wheat in the other, and the king a lamb.

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.

I came to know statues, and to appreciate at close range a Cnidian Venus or a Leda trembling under the weight of the swan.

I recalled that in ordering rites of apotheosis everywhere, with funeral games, issues of coins, and statues in the public squares, I had made an exception for Rome, fearing to augment that animosity which more or less surrounds any foreign favorite.

I confined myself to having some funeral chapels constructed for him, and statues erected here and there in different places where he had lived: this poor Lucius was not a god.

Antinous portraiture, based on the statues to be seen in the Rome of his time.

Egyptian style and the accompanying basalt statues of priestesses, all to be seen today in the Vatican.

Since no guidebook of Rome indicates its existence in that city already so crowded with statues, tourists do not know about it.

He felt a fierce compulsion to lock the statues back up and leave them in their boxes where they belonged--untouched, unseen.

Slowly he slammed the hammer down hard, methodically nailing the lids over the statues, one by one.

He wanted nothing to do with these statues that told the story of two women he was determined to forget.

How long could he endure being trapped in crowded boxy rooms with these statues that brought back that terrible time when love and desire and murderous jealousy had spiraled out of control?

Moonlight splashed the veranda, the potted palm, various statues, some of which were Greywolfs.