Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . Pan.—Before the age of Praxiteles he was usually represented in, human form, and was characterized by the shepherds pipe, the>astoral crook, the disordered hair, and also sprouting horns. The MYTHOLOGY OF SCULPTURE. 187 goat-footed, horned and hook-nose form became afterwards the raleprobably through the Praxitelean art. In it Tan appears as anactive leaper and dancer, and the amusing buffoon in the cycle ofDionysus. As a peaceful syrinx-player, he inhabits the grottoesconsecrated to him, where his figure is not unfrequently fou
Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . Pan.—Before the age of Praxiteles he was usually represented in, human form, and was characterized by the shepherds pipe, the>astoral crook, the disordered hair, and also sprouting horns. The MYTHOLOGY OF SCULPTURE. 187 goat-footed, horned and hook-nose form became afterwards the raleprobably through the Praxitelean art. In it Tan appears as anactive leaper and dancer, and the amusing buffoon in the cycle ofDionysus. As a peaceful syrinx-player, he inhabits the grottoesconsecrated to him, where his figure is not unfrequently found, amidgraceful nymphs, hewn out of the living :—Pan, British Museum. MiENADES (Bacchantes). Bacch^ female companions of Dionysus, in his wanderings throughthe east, are represented as crowned with vine-leaves, clothed with. 188 HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY. fawn-skins, carrying in their hands the thyrsus. They are dis-tinguished by their revelling enthusiasm, dishevelled hair, and headthrown back, with thyrsi, swords, serpents, dismembered roe-calves,tympana, and fluttering, loose flying garments. Bas-Eelief :— Bacchante, attributed to Scopas, British Museum. earlier times they were represented in front entirely as men,with the body of a horse growing on to them behind ; but afterwards,perhaps from the time of Phidias, the forms were blended much
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