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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911): Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)Bulfinch, Thomas

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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911): Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)

Name: The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911): Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)
Author: Bulfinch, Thomas

Bulfinch, Thomas

English poetry; Mythology, Classical; Mythology, Norse

Upper left-hand corner: Phaëthon making his request of Helios
    (Ph[oe]bus). Below: the Heliades turning into trees. Center:
    the maddened horses, one chariot wheel, and Phaëthon falling
    into the arms of Eridanus. The horsemen left and right of the
    four horses are Castor and Pollux. Earth-gods, sea-gods, and
    other figures.

   60.  A Son of Niobe. Ancient Marble in Florence:
        _Baumeister 3, 1751_                                         100

   61.  The Children of Niobe. Ancient Relief, St. Petersburg:
        _Baumeister 3, 1759_                                         101

   62.  Niobe and her Youngest Daughter. Ancient Marble, Florence:
        _Baumeister 3, 1746_                                         102

   63.  Æsculapius (Asklepios). Ancient Marble, Florence:
        _Furtwängler, Masterpieces, Fig. 87_                         104

   64.  Admetus must Die. Wall painting from Herculaneum in Naples:
        _Baumeister 1, 53_                                           106

   65.  Heracles. Ancient Marble in Lansdowne House:
        _Photograph_                                                 108

   66.  The Palatine Apollo. Ancient Marble in Vatican:
        _Baumeister 1, 104_                                          110

   67.  Daphne. Ancient Marble:
        _Springer, Kunstgeschichte, 1, 336_                          113

   68.  Artemis (Diana). Ancient Marble, Dresden:
        _Furtwängler, Masterpieces, p. 325_                          117

   69.  Arethusa. Ancient Coin: _Baumeister 2, 1140_                 118

   70.  A Young River-god. Ancient Bronze Head:
        _Roscher 9, 1489_                                            119

   71.  Actæon. Ancient Marble Relief: _Baumeister 1, 41_            121

   72.  The Pleiades. Painting by Elihu Vedder: _Photograph_         123

   73.  Endymion. Ancient Relief in the Capitoline, Rome: _E. von
        Mach, Handbook of Greek and Roman Sculpture, Plate 306_      124

   74.  The Death of Adonis. Ancient Marble in the Louvre:
        _Baumeister 1, 17_                                           127

    Right: Adonis leaves Venus. Center: he is wounded. Left: he is
    cared for by Venus, Cupid, and attendants.

   75.  Psyche at the Couch of Cupid. Painting by Thumann:
        _Photograph_                                                 130

   76.  Psyche and Cupid on Mount Olympus. Painting by Thumann:
        _Photograph_                                                 136

   77.  Artemis of Gabii. Ancient Marble in the Louvre: _E. von
        Mach, Handbook of Greek and Roman Sculpture, Plate 207_      139

   78.  Atalanta's Race. Painting by Poynter: _Photograph_           140

   79.  Hero and Leander. Painting by Keller: _Photograph_           144

   80.  Thisbe. Painting by Edward Burne-Jones: _Photograph_         148

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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911): Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)

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