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Delphi (1920)

Poulsen, Frederik, 1876-, Richards, G. C. (George Chatterton), 1867-1951 · London : Gyldendal · leaf 128

An illustration from Delphi, 1920, leaf 128
mpling stallions, two of them with riders, andfinally there are still more unimportant small fragments. Homolle interpreted this carrying away of a woman asthe Dioscuri carrying off the daughters of Leucippus atAphidnae in Laconia, a legendary motive, which was treatedas early as the middle of the… … Fig. 37.—From the south tricZt oi the Siphnian Treasury {Fouilles deDelphes, iv, plates ix, x). But on vases too the women are carried off in a sacredgrove near an altar, and in a painting by Polygnotus in theAnakeion at Athens we can trace the feature, which is notmentioned in literature before…

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