Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August 1913 (1914)
Quiggin, Edmund Crosby, 1875-1920, Ridgeway, William, Sir, 1853-1926 · Cambridge University Press · leaf 182
ory told by Apollodorus^ is wellknown. Glaukos, son of Minos, King of Crete, whileyet a child, was chasing a fly, and falhng into a pithos ofhoney he died. When he disappeared Minos had a greatsearch made. He summoned his mantic priests, theKouretes. The riddle they set in canonical fashion… … Fig. 6. beehive tomb. There, on the cylix ^ with white groundin Fig. 6, we see them ; the child Glaukos crouching inthe characteristic burial pose. A snake attacks the childsbody. Polyeidos slays the snake. Another snake brings amagic herb and resuscitates his dead companion. Polyeidosby the same…
Classical philology · Archaeology · Anthropology
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