A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 479
ef). 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 the shoulders ;— bears the heralds staff… … Iris. (Ancient Vase.) came popular. Her temple was in the Campus Martius, and shewas called Isis Campensis. She is also called iinigera, becauseher priests wore linen garments. Ixi^on. King of the Lapithse. Father of Pirithous. He mur-dered his father-in-law, and when no one would purify him, he…
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