Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . n, by his heavier drapery, by his hairhanging down upon his forehead, and his sombre aspect. Bust :— :— Pluto, Vatican. Persephone.—Proserpine. She is usually represented enthroned by the side of her husbandHades, and sometimes in the act of being carried off by Tluto. Statue :— Proserpine, Vatican. MoiRiE. (The Fates.) They were three, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. In later times,Clotho was represented as spinning; Lachesis, marking out thedestiny on a globe; Atropos, sitting. Lachesis is also to be foundwriting, o
Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . n, by his heavier drapery, by his hairhanging down upon his forehead, and his sombre aspect. Bust :— :— Pluto, Vatican. Persephone.—Proserpine. She is usually represented enthroned by the side of her husbandHades, and sometimes in the act of being carried off by Tluto. Statue :— Proserpine, Vatican. MoiRiE. (The Fates.) They were three, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. In later times,Clotho was represented as spinning; Lachesis, marking out thedestiny on a globe; Atropos, sitting. Lachesis is also to be foundwriting, or holding a roll; Atropos showing the hour on a sundial,or holding scales. Tyche.— is usually represented with a rudder, as guiding the affairs ofthe world, and a cornucopia as a symbol of the plentiful gifts ofnature, and also with a ball at her feet, showing the varying un- o 194 HANDBOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY. steadiness of fortune. Sometimes she wears a diadem, and a veilhanging over the back of her head to indicate her mysterious on 2 FORTUNE. Statues :— Fortune, , British Museum. Nemesis. In the earlier times, Nemesis was scarcely to be distinguishedfrom the representations of Aphrodite. So slight was the distinctionbetween the representations of Nemesis and Aphrodite, that Agora-critus, the sculptor, in losing the prize in competition with Alea-menes, for making an Aphrodite, by a slight change (supposed to be MYTHOLOGY OF SCULPTURE. 195 by the addition of some attribute) transformed his Aphrodite into aNemesis, afterwards called the Nemesis Rhamnusia. A fragmentof this statue is now in the British Museum. In later art she isdistinguished by the characteristic posture of the right arm; thearm being half raised, so as to form an angle, and the robe partlywithdrawn from the breast. Sometimes a wheel lies at her feet. , the light-winged messenger of the gods, is sometimes repre-sented in a long and wide tunic, over which hangs a
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