A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 455
tution of marriage, the abolition of bloodysacrifices, and the worship of the gods, are all attributed to Cecrops.Another and later tradition makes him a native of Sais in Egypt,who led Egyptians to Attica and thus introduced arts and civiliza-tion there; but this is rejected by those best able to… … Centaur. (Bas-relief, Parthenon, Athens.) proceeded from Ixlon and a cloud. They are celebrated for theiicontest with the Lapithae. This arose at the marriage of Pirithous,and is sometimes connected with a combat between the Centaursand Hercules (Hercules.) They were expelled from their homeand…
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