Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 212
, 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, attributed to Scopas, British Museum.… … more happily, by the joining of the belly and breast of a horse tothe upper part of a human body, the forms of whose countenance,pointed ears, and bristly hair betray an affinity to the satyr. Statues:— Borghese Centaur with Eros on its back, Louvre.Centaurs, with names of sculptors, Aristeas and…
Art, Ancient · Archaeology
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