Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 44
-; theformer, armed with his trident, is seated ; the latter, crov.-ncd PAINTINGS AND DECORATIONS. 37 with laurel, is on foot, and leans with his right arm on a lyre.On the wall opposite to this is a picture of Vulcan present-inof the arms of Achilles to Thetis. The celebrated shield issupported by… … HERCULES DRUNK. (Front Pompeii.) points out to her with a rod the marvels of its workmanship.Agreeably to the Homeric description the shield is encircled withthe signs of the zodiac, and in the middle are the bear, thedragon, etc. On the ground are the breast-plate, the greavesand the helmet. In…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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