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The Hierbs Gdmos
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is wrapped about his legs; but otherwise his broad and powerful figure is
undraped. Leaning back on his left hand, he raises his right and clasps Hera
by the wrist. She is bare-footed and clad, like the archaic maidens on the
akropolis at Athens, in a long sleeved chiton with a him&tion slung over her
right shoulder and under her left breast. But the steplidne above her brow and
the large veil that falls over her head and forms a framework for her whole
figure betoken that she is Hera as a bride1. With her left hand she is unveiling
herself to her bridegroom. In her right she probably held a sceptre.
Variations of the same type may be detected in late Greek vase-paintings,
which introduce Zeus and Hera among other deities as accessory figures. Thus
a fragmentary Apulian vase in Sir William Hamilton's collection represented a
battle of Greeks and Persians below with a council of the gods in the upper
Fig- 835.
register (fig. 83s)2. Here we see Zeus seated on a rock with Ganymedes (?)
standing- behind him and Hera in front. Zeus is half-draped in a himdtion and
has a fillet in his hair. His left hand, decorated with a bracelet, holds a long
sceptre; his right he raises in conversation with Hera. She wears an Ionic
chiton, ornamented with a broad stripe down the middle, and a bridal veil,
which she is lifting with her right hand. In her left she supports a long sceptre
topped by a palmette ; and on her head is a handsome stephdne.
A large krate'r from Ruvo, now at Naples, shows the rape of Persephone,
1 Other interpretations are considered and dismissed by R. Foerster Die Hochzeit ties
Zeus unci der Hera Breslau 1867 p. 34 n. 6.
" W. Tischbein Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases...noiv in the possession
of Sir Wf Hamilton 1795 ii. 14m pi. 1, F. KSpp in the Jahrb. d. Mis. deutsch. arch.
Inst. 1892 vii Arch. Anz. p. 125^. fig., Reinach Rdp. Vases ii. 293, 1—3.
C. III. 66
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is wrapped about his legs; but otherwise his broad and powerful figure is
undraped. Leaning back on his left hand, he raises his right and clasps Hera
by the wrist. She is bare-footed and clad, like the archaic maidens on the
akropolis at Athens, in a long sleeved chiton with a him&tion slung over her
right shoulder and under her left breast. But the steplidne above her brow and
the large veil that falls over her head and forms a framework for her whole
figure betoken that she is Hera as a bride1. With her left hand she is unveiling
herself to her bridegroom. In her right she probably held a sceptre.
Variations of the same type may be detected in late Greek vase-paintings,
which introduce Zeus and Hera among other deities as accessory figures. Thus
a fragmentary Apulian vase in Sir William Hamilton's collection represented a
battle of Greeks and Persians below with a council of the gods in the upper
Fig- 835.
register (fig. 83s)2. Here we see Zeus seated on a rock with Ganymedes (?)
standing- behind him and Hera in front. Zeus is half-draped in a himdtion and
has a fillet in his hair. His left hand, decorated with a bracelet, holds a long
sceptre; his right he raises in conversation with Hera. She wears an Ionic
chiton, ornamented with a broad stripe down the middle, and a bridal veil,
which she is lifting with her right hand. In her left she supports a long sceptre
topped by a palmette ; and on her head is a handsome stephdne.
A large krate'r from Ruvo, now at Naples, shows the rape of Persephone,
1 Other interpretations are considered and dismissed by R. Foerster Die Hochzeit ties
Zeus unci der Hera Breslau 1867 p. 34 n. 6.
" W. Tischbein Collection of Engravings from Ancient Vases...noiv in the possession
of Sir Wf Hamilton 1795 ii. 14m pi. 1, F. KSpp in the Jahrb. d. Mis. deutsch. arch.
Inst. 1892 vii Arch. Anz. p. 125^. fig., Reinach Rdp. Vases ii. 293, 1—3.
C. III. 66