The image of their glorious Maker shone:
Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure;
Severe, but in true filial freedom plac'd,
Whence true authority in man. Though both
Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd:
For contemplation he, and valour form'd;
For softness she, and sweet attractive grace."
Milton.
It is this expression which constitutes the great charm in the statuary of the ancient Greeks. All their works of art are animated by, and expressive of some thought, sentiment, or feeling. Love, wisdom, goodness, mirth, grief, anger, and rage are still seen in the productions of those old artists. The first class of beauty was assigned to the superior divinities, the second to heroes, and the third to fauns. Of the superior gods, the Saturnian family possess the rank of sublimity in the Καλὸς, or beautiful. In the fine head of Jupiter the hair rises from the forehead, and descends in abundant flowing locks on each side of the face and neck to the shoulders; the forehead is muscular, expressive of great strength; the nose and cheeks correspondent; the eyes and mouth express benevolence; the wise and serious brow, the placid countenance and full beard, inspire reverence and awe. His figure is the mightiest of the superior gods. His right arm
