Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 211
s the raleprobably through the Praxitelean art. In it Tan appears as anactive leaper and dancer, and the amusing buffoon in the cycle ofDionysus. As a peaceful syrinx-player, he inhabits the grottoesconsecrated to him, where his figure is not unfrequently found, amidgraceful nymphs, hewn out of the… … 188 HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY. fawn-skins, carrying in their hands the thyrsus. They are dis-tinguished by their revelling enthusiasm, dishevelled hair, and headthrown back, with thyrsi, swords, serpents, dismembered roe-calves,tympana, and fluttering, loose flying garments. Bas-Eelief :— Bacchante,…
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