The myth of Danae and analogous myths 465
does not look at Danae, nor Danae at him. A third picture, from
the Casa della Caccia, now at Naples (fig. 300)l, imports fresh motifs.
The advent of the god is symbolised by a great winged thunderbolt,
wl»ch falls upon a neighbouring block. Danae—to match a pendant
figure of Leda2—stands erect, while a hovering Eros shoots the
golden rain at her out of a big amphora on his shoulder. These
'Unovat
Fig. 30r.
^°rcol0l]0riS are noiie too happy. The painter, however, had an eye
r- the heroine's hair is dark, her snood rosy-red, her fluttering
V 1_Ielbig
Afl l8S5 li 1 Ca'"P- P- 35 no. 116, B. Quaranta in the Real Museo Borbonico
JV ^ Pl- 7. 1 M 'i,21' 2 with text PP- I—3' Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus p. 408 no. 5
p. P"li P- 342 f r~Wieseler—Wernicke Ant. Dcnkm. i. 66 f. pl. 6, 6, Guida del Mus.
a56' CP- A. l444' Herrmann Denim, d. Malerei pl. 188 (= my fig. 300) Text
" A Point noted f''hrer durch Pompeji* Leipzig 1928 p. 251 (Reg. vii. 4. 48).
C. ,tI y Herrmann op. cit. p. 256 n. 1;
3°
does not look at Danae, nor Danae at him. A third picture, from
the Casa della Caccia, now at Naples (fig. 300)l, imports fresh motifs.
The advent of the god is symbolised by a great winged thunderbolt,
wl»ch falls upon a neighbouring block. Danae—to match a pendant
figure of Leda2—stands erect, while a hovering Eros shoots the
golden rain at her out of a big amphora on his shoulder. These
'Unovat
Fig. 30r.
^°rcol0l]0riS are noiie too happy. The painter, however, had an eye
r- the heroine's hair is dark, her snood rosy-red, her fluttering
V 1_Ielbig
Afl l8S5 li 1 Ca'"P- P- 35 no. 116, B. Quaranta in the Real Museo Borbonico
JV ^ Pl- 7. 1 M 'i,21' 2 with text PP- I—3' Overbeck Gr. Kunstmyth. Zeus p. 408 no. 5
p. P"li P- 342 f r~Wieseler—Wernicke Ant. Dcnkm. i. 66 f. pl. 6, 6, Guida del Mus.
a56' CP- A. l444' Herrmann Denim, d. Malerei pl. 188 (= my fig. 300) Text
" A Point noted f''hrer durch Pompeji* Leipzig 1928 p. 251 (Reg. vii. 4. 48).
C. ,tI y Herrmann op. cit. p. 256 n. 1;
3°