A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 455
nted as an old man,dirty and meanly clad. He carried the shades of the dead acrossthe rivers of the lower world in his boat. To recompense him forthis service an obolus or danace was placed in the mouth of every corpse. Charybdis. See Scylla. Chimsera. A fire-breathing monster of Lycia. The idea… … Cerberus. (Bronze Statue.) 438 ANCIENT MYTHS the country about her home. Belleroj)hon having obtained Pecrasus,rose into the air and killed the monster witli arrows. In some worksof art found in Lycia the Chimera is represented like one speciesof tiie lion of that country. See Bellerophon. Chione.…
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