Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 74
ybele. At the sides, outside the columns, arefigures of the female votaries of the goddess, in frenziedattitudes like Maenads. The worship of Cybele resembledthat of Dionysus in this, as in other particulars : cp. Eur.Bacch. 75 foil. At the base is a frieze of lions and bulls :cp. Soph. Phil. 400 :… … MATRTDEVM ET NAV1 SALV1AESALVIAEVOTO SVSCEPTOC L AV DIA sYNTHTcH E D D When the sacred stone of the goddess Cybele wasbrought to Rome from Pessinus in 204 B.C., the vessel in 56 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCHOOL CLASSICS which it was carried grounded in the Tiber, and was drawnoff by the Vestal Virgin…
Classical antiquities
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