Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928 · London, Rivingtons · leaf 272
hantoms of vaindreams— In medio ramos, annosaque brachia panditUlmus opaca, ingens ; quam sedemSomnia vulgoVana tenere ferunt, foliisqrie sub omnibus lucrent. ViRG. ^lin. vi. 282-284. Perhaps the most probable solution is that the pigmiesare tiny souls. We know that it was the custom of Greekart to… … ^ n MYTH OF THE DESCENT INTO HADES. 143 souls, if such they be, disporting themselves after the fashionof imps and gnomes. But such unseemly pranks accord notill with tlie grim humour of Etrurian. Humour, liowever grim, deserts us in our secondEtruscan wall-picture. Turning to Plate 36, we find…
Homer · Mythology, Greek · Art and mythology · Art, Greek
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