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 . acrifice, between which there are alternately red and azurepanels. The red panels rest upon a blue band and the bluepanels on a red band, and the paintings on these bands arevaried according to their colour. Upon the red are ferociousanimals chasing their prey, or themselves pursued by dogs, HOUSE OF CASTOR AND POLLUX. 409 or throwing themselves into the water to quench their thirst;on the hlue a
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 . acrifice, between which there are alternately red and azurepanels. The red panels rest upon a blue band and the bluepanels on a red band, and the paintings on these bands arevaried according to their colour. Upon the red are ferociousanimals chasing their prey, or themselves pursued by dogs, HOUSE OF CASTOR AND POLLUX. 409 or throwing themselves into the water to quench their thirst;on the hlue are whimsical aquatic monsters, such as a Triton,with the body of a man and the tail of a lobster, who isdriving a sea-horse surrounded by dolphins. Three picturesoccupied the centres of the three red compartments, two ofwhich are almost obliterated ; the third represents Thetisdipping Achilles in the river Styx. In the blue compartmentsthere still remain a beautiful female playing on the lyre, anda Nereid seated on a Tritons back. She bears a shield, andmay be meant for Thetis carrying the armour to upper parts of the walls are more lightly ornamented,and painted on white Thelis dipping Achilles in the Styx. Through the tablinum we enter the peristyle, 31, if theterm may be applied to a court like this, which has a colon-nade on one side only. The roof was supported by five Doriccolumns. We spare the reader the details of the paintingshere, which are in the same style as those already described;but two dramatic scenes are worthy of notice, which have beenrepresented in Part I., pp. 191, 201. There is also a Phaedra andHippolytus of very good execution. 32. Puteal. 33. Garden,formerly enclosed by a wooden railing, as is proved byvertical channels cut in the pillars to the height of three feetsix inches, to receive the uprights. It seems to have beenlaid out in long straight flower-beds. The wall opposite the 410 POMPEII. tablinum is divided by engaged pill
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