Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . or Apollino. Florentine Gallery. Apollo Citharsedus. Vatican. Apollo Sauroctonos. Vatican. In bronze, in the Villa Albani. Apollo Citharsedus, seated, in porphyry. Naples. Apollo Musagetes. Naples. A small statue of Apollo, in bronze. Naples. Aktemis.—Diana. In the earlier style the goddess invariably appears in long andelegant drapery (in Stola). In later times, when Scopas, Praxiteles,and others had perfected the ideal, Artemis, like Apollo, wasformed slender and light-footed, her hips and breast without thefulness of womanhood;
Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . or Apollino. Florentine Gallery. Apollo Citharsedus. Vatican. Apollo Sauroctonos. Vatican. In bronze, in the Villa Albani. Apollo Citharsedus, seated, in porphyry. Naples. Apollo Musagetes. Naples. A small statue of Apollo, in bronze. Naples. Aktemis.—Diana. In the earlier style the goddess invariably appears in long andelegant drapery (in Stola). In later times, when Scopas, Praxiteles,and others had perfected the ideal, Artemis, like Apollo, wasformed slender and light-footed, her hips and breast without thefulness of womanhood; the still undeveloped forms of both sexesbefore puberty, here seem, as it were, arrested, and only unfoldedinto greater size. The countenance is that of Apollo, only with 170 HANDBOOK OF ARCHEOLOGY. less prominent forms, more tender and rounded; the hair is oftenbound up over the forehead into a knot (crobylus), but still oftenergathered together into a bow at the back, or on the crown of thehead. Her dress was a Doric chiton, either girt high, or flowing. DIANA TRIFORMIS. down to the feet. She is often represented in statues as Artemisthe huntress, in very animated movement; sometimes in the act oftaking the arrow from the quiver in order to discharge it; some-times on the point of shooting it. She is generally representedunder two phases : as a slaying deity, in connection with the chase,and as a life-giving, light-bringing goddess (Lucifera), when she MYTHOLOGY OF SCULPTURE. 171 appears holding a torch. The Greeks have also given her threedifferent characters : as the moon, she was Lucina; as the goddessof the chase, Diana; as a deity of the lower regions, Hecate. Whenrepresented under this triple form, with corresponding attributes,she was styled Triformis, or Trivia, as statues of this kind wereusually placed in towns and villages where three ways met. Asthe Artemis of the Ephesians, she was the personification of thefructifying and all-nourishing power of nature. Her im
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