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 Fig. 93. Hermes playing with the Child Dionysus The uplifted right hand (now broken off) of the god probably held a bunch of grapes, with which he was amusing the child. This wonderful work was wrought by the sculptor Praxiteles and illustrates the culmination of Athenian art in the fourth century B.C., in the days of the political weak- ness of Athens, when Thebes was overthrowing Sparta (p. 212), and Mace- donia was gaining the leadership of the Greeks (p. 216)