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A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)

Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 478

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butArtemis put a hart in her placeand bore her to Tauris, where she made her a priestess. When herbrother Orestes was to be sacrificed to Artemis she rescued him andcarried him to Greece with the statue of the goddess. Iphigeniawas probably the same as Artemis originally. She was worshippedin… … Daedalus making wings for Icarus.(Bas-relief). ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 4G1 later the wife of Zephyrus and mother of Eros (Cupid). She was thepersonification of the rainbow,which was considered a swiftmessenfrer of the gods. Inart she wears a long- and fidltunic, over this a light gar-ment ; wings on…

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