Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · New York, E. P. Dutton & company · leaf 278
ea-ia, already an article of faithin primitive Thrace, where, from the earliest times,Orpheus appears closely akin to Dionysus ; it istherefore only natural to find Dionysiac beings com-bined with Orphic scenes, as on the monument atPettau. On the right side of the beautiful stele ofAlbinius Asper… … Satyr and Maenad.Museum of Arlon. THE AFTER LIFE 201 more striking instance is in the museum of Arlon(Esperandieu, 4040) : within a curtained recess standtwo men and two women, probably two brothersand their respective wives ; at the sides are a dancingBacchante clapping the castanets, and a Satyr…
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