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chap, xli.] MYTHOLOGICAL URNS. 173
love embracing his bride; each having but a single
wing.8
Actaeon attacked by his dogs.—This scene is remark-
able only for the presence of a winged Fury, who sits by
with a torch reversed.9 On another urn Diana with a
lance stands on one side, and an old man on the other.10
Centaurs and Lapithse.—A subject often repeated. In
conformity with Ovid's description, some of the monsters
are striving to escape with the females they have seized,
while others are hurling rocks at Theseus and his fellows.1
From the numerous repetitions of certain subjects on
Etruscan urns, sometimes precisely similar, more frequently
with slight variations, it is evident that there was often
one original type of the scene, probably the work of some
celebrated artist.
Perseus and Andromeda.—The maiden is chained to
the walls of a cavern ; the fearful monster is opening his
huge jaws to devour her, when Perseus comes to her
rescue. Contrary to the received legend, she is here
draped. Her father Cepheus sits by, horror-struck at the
impending fate of his daughter. The presence of a winged
demon—probably the Juno of the maiden—is an Etruscan
peculiarity. On another similar relief, the protecting spirit
is wanting ; but some palm-trees mark the scene to be in
Ethiopia.2
* So it is represented by Inghirami, ' Ovid. Met. XII. 223 et seq. Gori,
I. tav. 52. I have not a distinct recol- I. tab. 152,153 ; III. cl. 3, tab. 1, 2.
lection of this urn. 3 Perseus in the one case has all his
9 Inghir. I. tav. 70. This may be attributes—pj'tais, talaria, harpe, and
Diana herself, who was sometimes re- Gorgonion—in the other, the last two
presented with wings by the Greeks only. Gori, I. tab. 123 ; III. c. 13, tab. 1.
(Pausan. V. 19), and frequently by the Inghirami, I. tav. 55, 56. Ovid (Met.
Etruscans, an instance of which is IV. 690) represents both the parents of
shown in the woodcut, at page 440, of the maiden as present. It may have been
Vol. I. so in the original scene which was the
10 Inghir. I. tav. 65. Gori, I. tab. 122. type of these reliefs, and the Juno may
love embracing his bride; each having but a single
wing.8
Actaeon attacked by his dogs.—This scene is remark-
able only for the presence of a winged Fury, who sits by
with a torch reversed.9 On another urn Diana with a
lance stands on one side, and an old man on the other.10
Centaurs and Lapithse.—A subject often repeated. In
conformity with Ovid's description, some of the monsters
are striving to escape with the females they have seized,
while others are hurling rocks at Theseus and his fellows.1
From the numerous repetitions of certain subjects on
Etruscan urns, sometimes precisely similar, more frequently
with slight variations, it is evident that there was often
one original type of the scene, probably the work of some
celebrated artist.
Perseus and Andromeda.—The maiden is chained to
the walls of a cavern ; the fearful monster is opening his
huge jaws to devour her, when Perseus comes to her
rescue. Contrary to the received legend, she is here
draped. Her father Cepheus sits by, horror-struck at the
impending fate of his daughter. The presence of a winged
demon—probably the Juno of the maiden—is an Etruscan
peculiarity. On another similar relief, the protecting spirit
is wanting ; but some palm-trees mark the scene to be in
Ethiopia.2
* So it is represented by Inghirami, ' Ovid. Met. XII. 223 et seq. Gori,
I. tav. 52. I have not a distinct recol- I. tab. 152,153 ; III. cl. 3, tab. 1, 2.
lection of this urn. 3 Perseus in the one case has all his
9 Inghir. I. tav. 70. This may be attributes—pj'tais, talaria, harpe, and
Diana herself, who was sometimes re- Gorgonion—in the other, the last two
presented with wings by the Greeks only. Gori, I. tab. 123 ; III. c. 13, tab. 1.
(Pausan. V. 19), and frequently by the Inghirami, I. tav. 55, 56. Ovid (Met.
Etruscans, an instance of which is IV. 690) represents both the parents of
shown in the woodcut, at page 440, of the maiden as present. It may have been
Vol. I. so in the original scene which was the
10 Inghir. I. tav. 65. Gori, I. tab. 122. type of these reliefs, and the Juno may