Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 30
cap?) hang on the wall. Danaewears a long chiton, and a mantle is wrapped round herwaist and knees; she holds in her hands the ends of thefillet which confines her hair. The myth is generallysupposed to mean that the heavens fertilise the earth byrain; Horaces notion (Od. iii. 168, converso in… … The figure of Europa is restored (probably correctly)from the girdle upwards. She kneels on the swimmingbull; but the attitude is evidently suggested by that ofVictory or Artemis as represented subduing a bull. 19. Zeus Ammon. Silver coin (stater) of Cyrene, of the early fourth century b.c.In the…
Classical antiquities
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