Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928 · London, Rivingtons · leaf 378
representing five women who died for love—Canace, Pasiphae, ScyUa, MjTrha, Phaedra. The name ofeach is clearly written above her in smaU. Eoman letters, sothere is no mistake about this saddest of all companies. Itis curious that this practice of writing the name meets us invery early art, timid of… … PI. 59. THE MYTH OF SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS. 205 plicity and pathos. A maiden stands with her hand upona wall, and looks into the far distance; in her other handshe holds a large lock of hair newly cut. Her face istroubled; the fear has begun to work which will soon bedespair. A terrible deed has been…
Homer · Mythology, Greek · Art and mythology · Art, Greek
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