“I am a maiden of bronze” (Homeric Epigram 3) Leon wanted to see how his statuette was getting on so he made his way past the temple of Hephaestus, patron…Read More >
Leon of Massalia
Allen Seaby, Leon of Massalia, Chapter 16: Pots, Whole and Broken
… the artist painted The vase with scenes funereal. Aristophanes, The Ecclesiazusae 997 Leon had noticed the ox-carts loaded with pink clay, which rumbled through the streets to the potters’…Read More >
Allen Seaby, Leon of Massalia, Chapter 15: A Holiday from Art
… A sacred dell, Shut in with olive, vine and laurel, Where throbs the nightingale. Sophokles, Oedipus at Kolonos 16-18 One morning Leon was leaning against a pillar in the…Read More >