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A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)

Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 479

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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 the goddess. Iphigeniawas probably the same as Artemis originally. She was worshippedin… … Dsedalus making wings for Icarus.(Bas-relief). TLLUSTRATED TN ART. 401 later the wife of Zephyrus and mother of Eros (Cupicl). She was thepersonification of the rainbow,which was considered a swiftmessensrer of the gods. Inart she wears a long and fulltunic, over this a light gar-ment ; wings on…

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