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A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)

Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 477

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butArtemis put a hart in her placeand bore her to Tauris, where she made her a priestess. When herbroher Orestes was to be sacrificed to Artemis she rescued him andcaiTied him to Greece with the statue of tlie goddess. Iphigeniawas probably the same as Artemis originally. She was Avorshippedin… … Daedalus making wings for Icarus.(Bas-relief). ILLUSTllATED IN ART. 401 later the wife of Zepliyrus and mother of Eros (Cupid). She was thepersonification of the rainbow,which was considered a swiftmessenger of tlie gods. Inait she wears a long and fulltunic, over this a light gar-ment ; wings on…

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