Year: 1895
Type: book
Abstract: Στ ioe et ' This monument, a figure of which is accessible in Miss J. E. Harrison's Mythology of Ancient Athens, represents, according to my view, the ancient tropics of Leo and Aquarius, with Taurus and Leo in symbolic combat in the frieze below.* The identical theory, in so far as it applies to numismatic emblems, was promulgated a few months afterwards by M. Jean Svoronos in a learned and scholarly paper, to be found in the Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique for 1894; but the theory was not so novel as M. Svoronos and I supposed it to be.In connexion with coins or gems, it is explicitly and admirably stated by Gorius, De PREFACE ΧΠῚ Many illustrations of this theory of mine will be found in the pages of this Glossary!.Suffice it to say here, in briefest illustration, that the Eagle which attacks the Swan and is in turn defeated by it, is, according to my view, the constellation Aquila, which rises in the East immediately after Cygnus, but, setting in the West, goes down a little while before that more northern constellation ; that Haliaetus Gemmis Astriferis, 1750; and a kindred but exaggerated development, in regard to legend, of the same hypothesis forms the method of Dupuis.1 Cf.pp. 8
Source: Clarendon Press eBooks
Author: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2016202679