. Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors . avrjp, avrjp ^avOos, ii^p lai/^oTepos. Pollux, Onomagticon, iv. 19, I6id.,134. THE THEATRES. 197 introduced by Sophocles, or Gorgon, or Death, or a Fury,and a host more of mythological personages, or Thamyris,with one eye blue and the other black. This last is the mostextraordinary. It appears from the marble masks stillextant that the white of the eye was imitated, leaving onlythe aperture
. Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors . avrjp, avrjp ^avOos, ii^p lai/^oTepos. Pollux, Onomagticon, iv. 19, I6id.,134. THE THEATRES. 197 introduced by Sophocles, or Gorgon, or Death, or a Fury,and a host more of mythological personages, or Thamyris,with one eye blue and the other black. This last is the mostextraordinary. It appears from the marble masks stillextant that the white of the eye was imitated, leaving onlythe aperture of the iris to see through ; but the irides them-selves of Thamyriss eyes must have been imitated—an extra-ordinary instance of minute attention to propriety, whentwo-thirds of the spectators probably could not tell whetherhe had any irides at all. The same may be observed ofTyros black and blue face. There are two very striking tragic masks in the TownleyGallery. The male is remarkable for the great elevation ofthe hair (oyicos), to give increased stature and dignity to theactor; its features are stern and exaggerated. Those of thefemale are regular and beautiful, and bear a wild, intense,. inspired expression of terror, such as Cassandra may haveworn while darkly presaging her own fate, and the evilsabout to fall on the house of Atreus. But it is very difficultto convey the expression of a mask by an engraving. Thecomic masks are still more numerous than the tragic. Theannexed masks belong to some of Terences characters: theyare given by Mad. Dacier, on the authority of a very ancientmanuscript in the Royal Library at Paris, and serve to illus- 198 POMPEII. trate the varieties of countenance considered applicable todifferent characters.
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