1. Statue of a kouros (youth) 590-580 B.C.; Archaic Greek, Attic Naxian marble H. without plinth 76 in. Fletcher Fund, 1932 (32.11.1) This kouros is one of the earliest marble statues of a human figure carved in Attica. The rigid stance, with the left leg forward and arms at the side, was ...

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Herodotus states that when the colonists reached the spring called Apollo's fountain the Libyan guides said to the Greeks "this is the place for you to settle in for here there is a hole in the sky."...

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