Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 901. Fig. 902. than mortal skill. Thus, like the merry Grecian coaster he sails the blue watersof the Mediterranean, but his boat is nothing more than a wine-jar—no wonderhe bears the palm (fig. 903 = T. Cades op. cit. \^^ Classe, A 6, 57, C. O. MiillerDenkmdler der alten Kunst Gottingen 1835 ii. 3. 23 f. pi. 55, 702 a cornelian inthe Poniatowski collection), or even a murex—a cockleshell, as we might say(fig. 904 = T. Cades op. cit. i^ Classe, A 6, 59 ai ^Ti provenance). Some-times, again, Erotes and Psychai play the part of ordinary men and wom
Zeus : a study in ancient religion . Fig. 901. Fig. 902. than mortal skill. Thus, like the merry Grecian coaster he sails the blue watersof the Mediterranean, but his boat is nothing more than a wine-jar—no wonderhe bears the palm (fig. 903 = T. Cades op. cit. \^^ Classe, A 6, 57, C. O. MiillerDenkmdler der alten Kunst Gottingen 1835 ii. 3. 23 f. pi. 55, 702 a cornelian inthe Poniatowski collection), or even a murex—a cockleshell, as we might say(fig. 904 = T. Cades op. cit. i^ Classe, A 6, 59 ai ^Ti provenance). Some-times, again, Erotes and Psychai play the part of ordinary men and women withno trace of divinity beyond the tell-tale wings of bird or butterfly or beetle anda certain exquisite grace that idealizes all—witness a wonderful band of decorationbelow the main panels on the wall of a dining-room in the house of the Vettii,which pictures Erotes and Psychai as twining garlands, making oil, coining m 1048 Appendix G money (?), fulling clothes, and selling wine {Herrmsiun Denkm. d. Malerei pis. 22,24, 2
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