A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 480
ef). 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 the shoulders ;— bears the heralds staff… … Iris. (Ancient Vase.) came popular. Her temple was in the Campus Martins, and shewas called Isis Campensis. She is also called linigeray 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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