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XXI.]
THE INFANT DIONYSOS.
19
youthful Dionysos is here carried in his cradle by two
Satyrs.
The infancy of the Theban God was watched over
by the Nymphs, or by the Muses, according to the testi-
mony of many ancient authors; and, in one very spirited
and beautiful monument of ancient art110, the infant is
swung in his basket or cradle, by a Nymph and a Satyr.
ur artist has given the charge to two Satyrs alone.
^ he torches borne by them remind us that the mystic
rJtes of Dionysos used to be celebrated in the night-
time.
Another monument of ancient art, made of more
fragile materials than those which have been repre-
sented and described in this chapter, was obtained by
me in the island. It is an earthenware lamp, on which
ai'e seen111 Zeus and his eagle.
Many authors speak of the eagle, which carried off
Ganymedes from his native fields, and conveyed him into
0 Winckelmann, Monumenti antichi inediti, Parte Prima, Cap. xx.
so engraved in the Description of Ancient Terracottas in the British
Museum, Pi. XXIV. n. 44-
s« the engraving at p. 21.
THE INFANT DIONYSOS.
19
youthful Dionysos is here carried in his cradle by two
Satyrs.
The infancy of the Theban God was watched over
by the Nymphs, or by the Muses, according to the testi-
mony of many ancient authors; and, in one very spirited
and beautiful monument of ancient art110, the infant is
swung in his basket or cradle, by a Nymph and a Satyr.
ur artist has given the charge to two Satyrs alone.
^ he torches borne by them remind us that the mystic
rJtes of Dionysos used to be celebrated in the night-
time.
Another monument of ancient art, made of more
fragile materials than those which have been repre-
sented and described in this chapter, was obtained by
me in the island. It is an earthenware lamp, on which
ai'e seen111 Zeus and his eagle.
Many authors speak of the eagle, which carried off
Ganymedes from his native fields, and conveyed him into
0 Winckelmann, Monumenti antichi inediti, Parte Prima, Cap. xx.
so engraved in the Description of Ancient Terracottas in the British
Museum, Pi. XXIV. n. 44-
s« the engraving at p. 21.