On comparing the composition of this triad with that of the triad placed next to Helios in the opposite half of the pediment a curious analogy of treatment may be observed. The so-called Theseus (D), like the reclining figure (M), seems to be quite unconscious of the great event which is being announced, and they are turned as by law of attraction to the groups of Day and Night which bound the scene on either side. The central figure on either triad seems only half aroused, while on either side the figure nearest the central action appears to have heard the news of the birth. If the triad near Selenè are the Three Fates, as Visconti and many of his successors have supposed, their place would more naturally be in the central part of the composition, or at least they might be supposed to be more on the alert with respect to what was passing. By others it has been argued that the place of this triad in immediate succession to Selenè, and the direction in which the figure nearest to the angle (M) is turned, would point to some mythic connection between these three figures and the Goddess of the Moon. Such a connection is suggested by the names given to the group by Welcker, who saw in them the three daughters of Cecrops, Aglauros, Hersè, and Pandrosos, mythic impersonations of the Dew, who have a conspicuous place in Attic legend, though Pandrosos alone of the three seems to have been honoured with worship at Athens. The same desire to connect this triad with Selenè has led Brunn (_Ber. d. k. bayer. Akad. Phil. hist. Cl._, 1874, ii., p. 16) to see in them personifications of clouds. Among the writers who have regarded K as separate from L and M, the most common opinion has been that K is Hestia; L and M have been called Aphroditè in the lap of Thalassa (Ronchaud), or of Peitho (Petersen), or Thalassa, the Sea, in the lap of Gaia, the Earth (Waldstein). K. _Mus. Marbles_, VI., pl. 10; Michaelis, pl. 6, fig. 15; Murray, II., pl. 7; Mitchell, _Selections_, pl. 6; _Stereoscopic_, No. 108. L. M. _Mus. Marbles_, VI., pl. 11; Baumeister, _Denkmaeler_, p. 1184, fig. 1374; Michaelis, pl. 6, fig. 16; Overbeck, _Gr. Plast._, 3rd ed., I., p. 308, fig. 63; Murray, II., pl. 7; _Stereoscopic_, No. 108; Waldstein, _Essays_, pl. 8; Mitchell, _Selections_, pl. 6. [Sidenote: =303 N.=]