Sexual life in ancient Greece : with thirty-two full-page plates

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List OF ILLUSTRATIONS

HERMES IN REPOSE.—From a nearly life-size bronze discovered at Herculaneum and now in the Museo Nazionale, Naples. The messenger of the gods is shown seated upon Mt. Ida in readiness to carry out the commands of his divine masters : 3 : : : : . Facing p.

A Dionystac REVEL—Between two Pegasi a Maenad and two Sileni dance. All the dancers are wreathed and the Maenad, who is playing the castanets (crotala) wears the long chiton with the himation over the right shoulder. From a kylix of about 500 B.c., now in the British Museum, signed by Pamphzus . : : : : : . Facing p.

Compat BETWEEN A CENTAUR AND A LapitH.—A metope from the Parthenon at Athens, built about 447-433 B.C., now in the British Museum (see p. 228) . Facing p.

Tueseus SLAYING THE Mrinotaur.—The girls, added merely for artistic effect, are wearing the chiton and himation, with the saccos as head-dress. From a red figure kylix of c. 460 B.c., signed by Epictetos, now in the British Museum

Facing p.

APOLLO AND THE THREE GRaces——A marble relief, formerly in the Farnese Collection, now in the Museo Nazionale, Naples. The group has also been known as “ Alcibiades and the Hetaire ’’, and merely as ‘‘ A Symposion ”

Facing p.

SILENUS AND THE HERMAPHRODITE.—From a wall-painting in the Domus Vetiorum at Pompeii . # . Facing p.

Narcissus —From the Greek bronze statue found at Pompeii in 1865 and now in the Museo Nazionale, Naples Facing p.

Tue Dancinc Satyr—From a Greek bronze found in 1831 in the House of the Faun, Pompeii’s largest and most magnificent mansion; now in the Museo Nazionale, Naples f : : : 2 z . Facing p.

THe HERMES OF PRAXITELES.—The god is shown carrying the infant Dionysus to the nymphs to whose care Zeus had entrusted him. The statue, the only extant work that can with certainty be ascribed to Praxiteles, is described by Pausanias (v, 17, 3), and was discovered in 1877 in the cella of the Temple of Hera at obrapie: It is now in the Museum at Olympia . ‘ ; . Facing p.

Pan, WITH A Goat.—From an ancient marble now in the Museo Nazionale, Naples. , : . Facing p.

A Maenap IN FREeNzy.—A Greeco-Roman relief from the Towneley Collection, now in the British Museum, probably forming originally a decorative panel to some larger work. The Maenad, in a long tunic and diploidion, moves forward on tiptoe carrying in her right hand a knife and in her left the hindquarters of a slaughtered kid . Facing p.

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