sentences:  His swift right leg was bent at the knee, and on it he rested his left hand, and meanwhile he was turning his face up to heaven, as if he were hearing the commands of his king and father""
  Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway prefers to call the subject "The Sandal-Binder" or "Jason"; she notes, that, from the finding sites, the sculpture appears to have been popular in gardens and gymnasia.Judging from the fully lifesize scale of the copies and their generally high quality, the original bronze must have been respected as one of the received masterpieces in the canon of antiquity (Ridgeway 1964