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47 8 Apollon and Artemis
The sw an was fair game to the satirist; but its connexion with the
myth was never forgotten by ancient art. A fine sardonyx cameo
at Florence (fig. 367)1 shows
Fhaethon falling from the solar
car into the river, which is
suggested by the urn upset.
Helios2, a youthful figure on
horse-back grasping a torch,
gallops up to the rescue. In
the foreground Kyknos, a swan
already, utters his plaintive cry.
The same scene with its sug-
gestion of sudden death fol-
lowed by new and glorified life
was repeated on sarcophagi of
the second and third centuries A.D.:i The noblest example is that
Fig. 368.
from Ostia, now in the Jacobsen collection at Ny-Carlsberg (fig. 368)4.
1 C. Lenormant Nouvelle galerie mythologique (Tresor de numismatique et de glyptique)
Paris 18,^0 p. 134 no. 15 pi. 41, F. Wieseler Phaethon Gottingen 1857 p. 17 fig. 10,
id. in the Ann. d. Inst. 1869 xli. 134, Furtwangler Ant. Gemmen i. pi. 58, 2, ii. 263,
W. H. Roscher in his Lex. Myth. iii. 21991". My fig. 367 is from T. Cades Collezione di
N°. 1400 Impronti delle migliori pietre incise, si antiche, che moderne, ricavati dalle piii
distinte Collezioni conosciute delV Europa ima. Classe, A 4, 19.
- Furtwangler op. cit. ii. 263 : ' Es ist der eine der Dioskuren, der Tagesdioskur,
identifiziert mit Phosphoros, oder, anders gewendet, Phosphoros im Typus eines Dioskurs.'
But see supra p. 475 n. 6.
3 G. Knaack Quaestiones Phaethonteae Berolini 1886 pp. 71—77, id. in Roscher Lex.
Myth. iii. 2197—2199. F. Wieseler Phaethon Gottingen 1857 ^Ss- l> 2> 4> 5 provides
materials for comparative study, but will be superseded some day by a future volume of
Robert Sark.-Relfs.
4 F. Wieseler ' Sarcofago ostiense rappresentante il mito di Fetonte' in the Ann. d.
Inst. 1869 xli. 130—144 pi. F, F. Matz in the Arch. Zeit. 1870 xxviii. H3ff., G. Knaack
in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 2197 ff. fig. 2, G. Lippold in P. Arndt La Glyptolhique
Ny-Carlsberg Munich 1896 p. 215 f. pi. 153 ( = my fig. 368), Reinach Rip. Reliefs ii.
182 no. 2.
Fig. 367-
The sw an was fair game to the satirist; but its connexion with the
myth was never forgotten by ancient art. A fine sardonyx cameo
at Florence (fig. 367)1 shows
Fhaethon falling from the solar
car into the river, which is
suggested by the urn upset.
Helios2, a youthful figure on
horse-back grasping a torch,
gallops up to the rescue. In
the foreground Kyknos, a swan
already, utters his plaintive cry.
The same scene with its sug-
gestion of sudden death fol-
lowed by new and glorified life
was repeated on sarcophagi of
the second and third centuries A.D.:i The noblest example is that
Fig. 368.
from Ostia, now in the Jacobsen collection at Ny-Carlsberg (fig. 368)4.
1 C. Lenormant Nouvelle galerie mythologique (Tresor de numismatique et de glyptique)
Paris 18,^0 p. 134 no. 15 pi. 41, F. Wieseler Phaethon Gottingen 1857 p. 17 fig. 10,
id. in the Ann. d. Inst. 1869 xli. 134, Furtwangler Ant. Gemmen i. pi. 58, 2, ii. 263,
W. H. Roscher in his Lex. Myth. iii. 21991". My fig. 367 is from T. Cades Collezione di
N°. 1400 Impronti delle migliori pietre incise, si antiche, che moderne, ricavati dalle piii
distinte Collezioni conosciute delV Europa ima. Classe, A 4, 19.
- Furtwangler op. cit. ii. 263 : ' Es ist der eine der Dioskuren, der Tagesdioskur,
identifiziert mit Phosphoros, oder, anders gewendet, Phosphoros im Typus eines Dioskurs.'
But see supra p. 475 n. 6.
3 G. Knaack Quaestiones Phaethonteae Berolini 1886 pp. 71—77, id. in Roscher Lex.
Myth. iii. 2197—2199. F. Wieseler Phaethon Gottingen 1857 ^Ss- l> 2> 4> 5 provides
materials for comparative study, but will be superseded some day by a future volume of
Robert Sark.-Relfs.
4 F. Wieseler ' Sarcofago ostiense rappresentante il mito di Fetonte' in the Ann. d.
Inst. 1869 xli. 130—144 pi. F, F. Matz in the Arch. Zeit. 1870 xxviii. H3ff., G. Knaack
in Roscher Lex. Myth. iii. 2197 ff. fig. 2, G. Lippold in P. Arndt La Glyptolhique
Ny-Carlsberg Munich 1896 p. 215 f. pi. 153 ( = my fig. 368), Reinach Rip. Reliefs ii.
182 no. 2.
Fig. 367-