Essays and studies presented to William Ridgeway : on his sixtieth birthday, 6 August, 1913 (1913)
Ridgeway, William, Sir, 1853-1926, Quiggin, Edmund Crosby, 1875-1920 · Cambridge, [England] : University Press · leaf 180
ry told by Apollodorus^ is wellknown. Glaukos, son of Minos, King of Crete, whileyet a child, was chasing a fly, and falling 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…
