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

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IV.

Vv.

VI.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Ares —A copy of Roman date of a 4th cent. Greek marble in

the style of Scopas. It is known as the “‘ Marte Ludovisi ” and is now in the Museo Nazionale delle Terme, Rome

Frontispiece

ODYSSEUS AND PENELOPE——From a Pompeian wall-painting

Facing p.

Tue AsTRAGALUS PLayERs.—A carefully modelled terra-cotta

statuette found at Capua and now in the British Museum. Both girls are wearing ear-rings, shoes, and the chiton: the hair of the figure on the left is parted and waved in front, and falls luxuriantly down her back, that of her companion also has a parting and is richly waved under a cap which covers the back of her head . ‘ ‘ : . Facing p.

PaINTED CRATER AND AMPHORA.—The crater is early

Apulian work and is decorated with two scenes from Greek story. The upper painting is from Euripides’ Hippolytus (198-600) and shows Phzedra (see p. 150) seated, with Eros hovering above her ; and in the lower we see Theseus about to strike Eurytus, the Centaur, in the uproar that took place at the marriage of Peirithous (to left), the national hero of the Lapithe (see p. 228). The black-figure amphora is signed by Nicosthenes and is decorated with a frieze of dancing Satyrs and Maenads, with cocks and Syrens on the shoulder. Both vases are now in the British Museum

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Two WoMEN CoNVERSING.—A terra-cotta statuette discovered

in Asia Minor in 1885 and now in the British Museum. The group perhaps represents a bride (left) receiving final advice from a pronuba, the elder woman on the right. ‘The latter wears ear-rings, shoes, long chiton and himation veiling her head and twisted round her knees: the hair of the other is elaborately dressed ; she wears a ring on the third finger of the left hand, which holds a broken fan . Facing p.

Mrnoan SNAKE Gopprss——A Middle Minoan glazed and

coloured pottery figure of about 1600 B.c., found under the floor of the Palace at Cnossus, Crete, and probably originally forming part of the furniture of a royal temple. It shows well the style of dress described at pp. 81-2. Now in the Cretan Museum at Herakleion . Facing p.

A Girt ATHLETE—The statue (both arms restored) was

discovered at Hadrian’s villa, and is now in the Museo Vaticano, Rome. It is probably a copy of a work by a Peloponnesian sculptor of the 5th cent. B.c. . Facing p.