. The Archaeological journal. ^ of the head andshoulders of people that, according to Dyer, are movingin the mazes of the dance, that its style is reallj- worthyof being adapted to some modern subject as a parod3^The characters represented are all that they say (except. IOETIiAlTS FKOM POMPKI. Kegio VIIl. Insula IV. IIorsK 4. ]No. 1. those that they cannot name); but this over-classicalnessof diction has led them to ignore that when the gods,heroes, and others are reproduced in the pictures ofPompei, they are always represented in conjunction withthe performance of some act in their history or
. The Archaeological journal. ^ of the head andshoulders of people that, according to Dyer, are movingin the mazes of the dance, that its style is reallj- worthyof being adapted to some modern subject as a parod3^The characters represented are all that they say (except. IOETIiAlTS FKOM POMPKI. Kegio VIIl. Insula IV. IIorsK 4. ]No. 1. those that they cannot name); but this over-classicalnessof diction has led them to ignore that when the gods,heroes, and others are reproduced in the pictures ofPompei, they are always represented in conjunction withthe performance of some act in their history or in the livesof those witli whom mythology relates that they wereassociated. The faces figuring in the seven (not eight)little pictures in question represent no definite act or FAMILY rOKTllAns AT 19 event, though they possess several symbolic adjuncts, suchas the ivy and the thyrsus. Nothing more likely, then,can be their history than that they were portraits of a familywho wished to see their likenesses reproduced as Bacchiccharacters. We reproduce the woman and her repre-sentative of a child, too out of proportion for modernrequirements ; and we also show the so-called Paris,which is a woman, as can be seen by the pearl earrings,the hair hanging down
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