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Myths of the Odyssey in art and literature (1882)

Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928 · London, Rivingtons · leaf 284

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male heads with lon-g hair confined by a Most in harmony with the conception we naturally frame of HomersSirens is the representation figured in Plate 46, belonging to a late period ofart, when imitation of literary description was conscious and deliberate. Theplate will be described later.… … CO THE MYTH OF THE SIRENS. 151 sphendone; the hair falls in a curious formal tress in frontof the ear. Over the left-hand Siren her name is written,HIMEPOrA, lovely voiced, Odysseus himself is naked;his hands are boimd to the mast; he looks up toward theSirens as if attracted; his beard is pointed;…

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