Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 149
ody; the blood pours from the wounds, andAegisthus falls from his seat to the ground. Chrvsothemis(KPV*O0EMI* retrograde for + PV*OOEMI*), wearing along sleeved chiton, her hair confined by a band, turnsaway from the scene towards the left, whence (in anotherpanel, not given here) Clytemnestra is… … Orestes has fled to the omphalos, which he clasps, stillholding the sword with which he committed the murder.The omphalos (o/x</>aAos), which was supposed to mark thecentre of the earth, was a conical stone standing in theshrine of Apollo at Delphi; its sacredness is marked by itsbeing…
Classical antiquities
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