hich turned with the wind,
and so gave to the whole its name. The bas-reliefs were stripped off
and sent to the palace to be melted.

A beautiful equestrian statue of great size, representing either
Bellerophon and Pegasus or, as the populace believe, Joshua on
horseback commanding the sun to stand still, was likewise sent to the
furnace. The horse appeared to be neighing at the sound of the
trumpet, while every muscle was strained with the ardor of battle. The
colossal Hercules of Lysippus, which, having adorned Tarentum, had
thence been transported to the Elder and subsequently to the
hippodrome of the New Rome, met with a like fate. The artist had
expressed, in a manner which had won the admiration of beholders, the
deep wrath of the hero at the unworthy tasks set before him. He was
represented as seated, but without quiver or bow or club. His lion's
skin was thrown loosely about his shoulders, his right foot and right
hand stretched out to the utmost, while he rested his head on his left
hand with his elbow on his bent knee. The whole figure was full of
dignity; the chest deep, the shoulders broad, the hair curly, the arms
and limbs full of muscle.

The figure of an ass and its driver, which Augustus had had cast in
bronze to commemorate the news brought to him of the victory of
Actium, met with the same fate.

For the sake of melting them down into money the barbarians seized
also the ancient statue of the wolf suckling Romulus and Remus; the
statues of a sphinx, a hippopotamus, a crocodile, an elephant, and
others, which had represented a triumph over Egypt; the monster of
Scylla and others; most of which were probably executed before the
time of Christ.

The celebrated statue of Helen was destroyed by men who knew nothing
of its original. There must be added to these the graceful figure of a
woman who held in her right hand the figure of an armed man on
horseback. Then near the eastern goals, known as the "reds," stood the
statues of the winners in the chariot races. They stood erect in their
bronze chariots, as the originals also had been seen when they gained
their victories, as if they were still directing their steeds to the
goals. A figure of the Nile bull in deadly conflict with a crocodile
stood near. These and other statues were hastily sent to the furnace
to be converted into money. We may judge of the value and artistic
merit of the bronze statues which were destroyed, by the specimens
which remai