Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 237
Asclepius (-^sculapius), god of healing. Delphi was thechief seat of his worship, where a gorgeous temple waserected to him. There the priestess Pythia uttered the oracles that weresupposed to come to her ears alone, from out of a cleft inthe rock under the sacred tripod, from which also… … Fig. 268.—Athene Polias (VUla Albani). The Roman Emperor Augustus erected a great templeto Apollo on the Palatine Hill, in which was placed the GRECIAN PEOPLE AND MYTHOLOGY. 217 celebrated statue of Apollo Citharsedus (Apollo with thelyre), a work by the famous Greek sculptor Scopas. Thestatues of…
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