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

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List OF ILLUSTRATIONS

‘THE WRESTLERS.—An ancient marble found at Rome and now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Though known by the above name, ‘‘ The Pancratiastae’’ would be the more correct title, for as the victor is about to strike the vanquished the match represented must be the pancratium, in which wrestling and boxing are combined . Facing p.

ARTEMIS.—The virgin huntress is reaching for an arrow from her quiver as she pursues her quarry. The hind is added merely as a conventional attribute, and shows, incidentally, that the work is of the decadent period of Greek art. From the statue in the Louvre, Paris : : . Facing p.

HERMAPHRODITE——From a Greco-Roman statue now in the Museum of Sculpture, Berlin , : . Facing p.

VENUS DE Mepic1—A Greek marble, dating probably from the time of Augustus, found at Hadrian’s Villa and now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence ; it is so called because before it was brought to Florence (1677) it was placed in the Villa Medici, Rome. It is thought to be a study of a statue of Praxiteles ; the arms and part of the trunk under the right breast are 17th cent. restorations . < . Facing p.

HERACLES SLAYING THE NEMEAN LIoN.—From an amphora of about 550-500 B.C., in the British Museum. Athene, in a long embroidered chiton, stands above the hero, while on his left is his beloved Iolaus (see p. 444).

A Dtonysiac ReveL—From an Athenian hydria of about 500 B.C., signed by Pamphzus, now in the British Museum. Dionysus, in long embroidered chiton and striped himation, hold a cantharos into which a Maenad—with crotala (castanets) in either hand—appears to gaze. Behind her is a Satyr playing on a chelys ; and behind Dionysus is another Satyr playing on the double flute, with a long-tressed Maenad carrying a hind across her shoulders behind him. On the shoulder is seen a quadriga at full speed, followed by a galloping horseman, and below is a lion confronting a boar , : s : : : . Facing p.

THE MourNING ATHENE.—From a marble relief of about the middle of the 5th cent. B.c., found built into a wall on the Acropolis, Athens, and now in the Acropolis Museum. The object in front of the goddess probably represents a stele bearing the names of Athenians who had fallen in battle

Facing p.

APOLLO SAUROKTONUS.—From a marble copy of the statue by Praxiteles, found in 1777 in the ruins of the Palace of Augustus on the Palatine and now in the Museo Vaticano, Rome (see p. 193) j : : : . Facing p.

Compats BETWEEN GREEKS AND AMAZONS.—One of the slabs, now in the British Museum, of a frieze depicting the War of the Greeks and the Amazons. From the Mausoleum at Halicarnassos, built c. 350 B.C. 5 2 . Facing p.

APHRODITE KaLLipyGos.—From a statue found on the site of the Golden House of Nero, at Rome, and now in the Museo Nazionale, Naples. The right leg, left arm and hand, and the head are restorations (see p. 201) Facing p.

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