Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 150
mmitted 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 covered with a network of fillets (a-renfma-i evSvros,Eur. Ion. 223) like the dyprjvov, which… … Jason (with a club in his right hand) is taming the bull,while Medea, who is accompanied by Eros, looks on from abalcony. On the right is a tree round which coils theserpent that guarded the fleece. Jasons shield is repre-sented as it were hanging to a wrall in the background.From the tree on the…
Classical antiquities
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