The flora of the Assyrian monuments and its outcomes (1894)
Bonavia, Emanuel, 1826-1908 · Westminster, A. Constable · leaf 210
which Apollo was wont todrive the flocks of Admetus. It is not impossible thatApollo and Mercury had been simply making an ex-change of Jioyn-einblems^ all these myths being thecreations of highly imaginative Greek poets and artists. But let us turn for a moment from this pretty ^ See picture by G.… … Fig. 92.—Part of west pediment, CEgina ; Archaic Room, British Museum. showing the battle of the Greeks and Trojans. Tomy mind it is a pair of horns twisted into a formnot unHke a lyre. Inside it has an anthemion, andabove it has another, both of which I take to besurvivals of the date-tree head of…
Assyro-Babylonian religion · Botany -- History · Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian
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