A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 478
). 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 the shoulders ;— bears the heralds start… … Iris. (Ancient Vase.) came popular. Her temple was in the Campus Martius, and shewas called Isis Campensis. She is also called linigera, becauseher priests wore linen garments. Ixion. King of the Lapithae. Father of Pirithous. He mur-dered his father-in-law, and when no one would purify him, he…
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