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Is thrown a mantle under which is strewn a skin, the
claws of which are certainly those of some feline animal.
The type and position of this figure present so much
resemblance to the Herakles on the silver coins of Kroton
in Lower Italy (Mus. Marbles, vi., title-page), that it
has been identified with that hero by Yisconti, who
supposed the skin on which he reclines to be that of
a lion. This skin, however, seems more like that of a
panther, on which ground the figure has been thought
to be Dionysos, who appears in a very similar reclining
attitude on another Athenian work, the Choragic monu-
ment of Lysikrates (compare the statue in the Louvre,
Wieseler, Denkmaler, II., pi. 32, No. 3G0). The manner
in which this figure is turned away from the central
scene towards Helios led Brondsted to identify it with
Kephalos, who on vase pictures is constantly associated
with Aurora, flying before her as the twilight vanishes
before the dawn (see Vase Catalogue, Nos. 867, 868, 869,
and 1290), and who is the subject of an Attic myth.
More recently Brunn has interpreted this figure as the
mountain of Olympos itself illumined by the first rays
of the rising sun, and it must be acknowledged that the
attitude and type of the so-called Theseus would be very
suitable for the personification of a mountain. (Brunn,
Berichte der bayer. Akademie der Wissen., 1874, II.,
pp. 3-50 ; Mus. Marbles, vi., pll. 3-4 ; Harrison, No. 694;
Caldesi, No. 2.)
[E—P.]—The two seated figures next in the order of the
composition are so grouped together that near relationship,
such as that of a mother and a daughter, or of two sisters,
is suggested by their composition. They sit on square
seats, dijpliroi, half concealed by their drapery. They both
wear a chiton fastened on the shoulder so as to leave the
entire arm uncovered; over it is a mantle thrown over
their lower limbs in a rich composition of folds. On the
Is thrown a mantle under which is strewn a skin, the
claws of which are certainly those of some feline animal.
The type and position of this figure present so much
resemblance to the Herakles on the silver coins of Kroton
in Lower Italy (Mus. Marbles, vi., title-page), that it
has been identified with that hero by Yisconti, who
supposed the skin on which he reclines to be that of
a lion. This skin, however, seems more like that of a
panther, on which ground the figure has been thought
to be Dionysos, who appears in a very similar reclining
attitude on another Athenian work, the Choragic monu-
ment of Lysikrates (compare the statue in the Louvre,
Wieseler, Denkmaler, II., pi. 32, No. 3G0). The manner
in which this figure is turned away from the central
scene towards Helios led Brondsted to identify it with
Kephalos, who on vase pictures is constantly associated
with Aurora, flying before her as the twilight vanishes
before the dawn (see Vase Catalogue, Nos. 867, 868, 869,
and 1290), and who is the subject of an Attic myth.
More recently Brunn has interpreted this figure as the
mountain of Olympos itself illumined by the first rays
of the rising sun, and it must be acknowledged that the
attitude and type of the so-called Theseus would be very
suitable for the personification of a mountain. (Brunn,
Berichte der bayer. Akademie der Wissen., 1874, II.,
pp. 3-50 ; Mus. Marbles, vi., pll. 3-4 ; Harrison, No. 694;
Caldesi, No. 2.)
[E—P.]—The two seated figures next in the order of the
composition are so grouped together that near relationship,
such as that of a mother and a daughter, or of two sisters,
is suggested by their composition. They sit on square
seats, dijpliroi, half concealed by their drapery. They both
wear a chiton fastened on the shoulder so as to leave the
entire arm uncovered; over it is a mantle thrown over
their lower limbs in a rich composition of folds. On the