A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 510
hyrus and Boreas, the Argestes (Olympias or Sciron),and the Thrascias. This is the arrangement of Aristotle, who alsosays that Eurus is not east but southeast. There is a differentarrangement upon a monument in the Museum Pio-Clementinum.The Venti are represented in art with wings at the head… … Venus (Aphrodite) and Eros (Cupid). she was at length worshipped in various characters. The surnameof Murtea or Murcia, referred to her fondness for the myrtle. Thatof Calva, to the fact that on her wedding-day the bride cut off alock of hair to sacrifice to Venus. She was worshipped as…
Art and mythology · Christian art and symbolism
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