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

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XXXI.

List oF ILLUSTRATIONS

Hypnos.—Winged head in bronze of the God of Sleep found in the river-bed at Civitello d’Arno, near Perugia, in 1856, and now in the British Museum. The one remaining wing is that of a night-hawk; the torso to which the head is added is a cast from a similar subject now at Madrid

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Youne ATHLETE ANOINTING HIMsELF.—From a Greek statue now in the Louvre, Paris . 3 . Facing p.

GANYMEDE, WITH ZEUS IN THE ForM OF AN EaGLeE—The boy embraces the disguised god, who is caressing him with his eagle’s wing. Ganymede’s head, left arm, right hand, and half of one of the legs are restorations. A Roman group, now in the Museo Nazionale, Naples . Facing p.

DiIoNyYsUS AND THE SPIRIT OF THE VINE.—From the marble statue found in 1772 at La Storta, near Rome, and now in the British Museum. If the figure upon whose shoulder Dionysus affectionately leans is—as most authorities agree —female, it cannot be intended for Ampelus (see p. 468)

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REVELS OF SATYRS OR SILENI—Two scenes from a psycter signed by Duris (5th cent. B.c.) now in the British Museum. In the first, two Sileni are dancing, one on each side of a cantharos placed on the ground ; in the second one Silenus is, apparently, trying to drink upside-down from a kylix on the ground, while the other (ithyphallic) holds a kylix in his left hand and with his right makes a gesture of admiration

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