Identifier: handbookofarchae00west (find matches)
Title: Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884
Subjects: Art, Ancient Archaeology
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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globe in her hard. 9. Thalia, themuse of comedy, and idyllic poetry, is characterized by a comic mask,a shepherds staff, and a wreath of ivy. They arc sometimes repre-sented with plumes on their head, supposed to typify their victoryover the Sirens. Statues :— In the Vatican. In the Museum, Naples. In the Villa Borghese. Bas-Eelief :— Front of Sarcophagus, British Museum. iEsCULAPIUS. iEsculapius was represented as a man of mature age, of Zeus-likebut less sublime countenance, with mild benevolent expression, hiscopious hair encircled with a fillet, standing in the attitude of oneready to help, the himation taken about the left arm, round under-the breast, and drawn tight, and the staff enwreathed with a serpentin his right hand. Statues :— iEsculapius, Vatican.JEsculapius, Louvre. Hygieia. The goddess of health was represented as a virgin of remarkablyblooming form, who generally gives drink to a serpent from apatera in her left hand. MYTHOLOGY OF SCULPTURE. 193 Rhea.—Cybele.
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HEAD OF CYBELE. Rhea is recognised by a crown of towers, the tympanum as asymbol of her enthusiastic worship, and her car yoked with lions. Hades.—Pluto. Hades, the ruler of the shadowy realm, is distinguished from hisbrothers, Zeus and Poseidon, by his heavier drapery, by his hairhanging down upon his forehead, and his sombre aspect. Bust :— Vatican.Statue :— Pluto, Vatican. Persephone.—Proserpine. She is usually represented enthroned by the side of her husbandHades, and sometimes in the act of being carried off by Tluto. Statue :— Proserpine, Vatican. MoiRiE. (The Fates.) They were three, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. In later times,Clotho was represented as spinning; Lachesis, marking out thedestiny on a globe; Atropos, sitting. Lachesis is also to be foundwriting, or holding a roll; Atropos showing the hour on a sundial,or holding scales. Tyche.—Fortune.She is usually represented with a rudder, as guiding the affairs ofthe world, and a cornucopia as a symbol of the pl

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