A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 454
itution of marriage, the abolition of bloodysacrifices, and the worship of the gods, are all attributed to Cecrops.Another and later tradition makes him a native of Sais in Egypt,who led Egyptians to Attica and thus introduced arts and civiliza-tion there; but this is rejected by those best able to… … Centaur. (Bas-relief, Parthenon, Athens.) proceeded from Ixion and a cloud. They are celebrated for theircontest with the Lapithae. Tliis arose at the marriage of Pirithous,and is sometimes connected with a combat between the Centaursand Hercules (Hercules.) They were expelled from iheir homeand…
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