. The Open court. Jason Securing the Golden Vase of Naples. (Reproduced from Heydemann, Hall. Winckelmanyisprogramyn, 1886, pi. 3.) 1 This picture, frequently copied in frescoes, has become famous through Goethes admirabledescription which appears in Vol. XXX., 425 f. of his collected works (edition Ootta). 2The hero is accompanied by Medea and two warriors. A satyrs head is visible in the treeand the bust of Nike appears in the sky. ON GREEK AND MY 657 The festival of mourning with subsequent rejoicing that wascelebrated in Cyprus for Adon-Tammuz, was changed in Christianti


. The Open court. Jason Securing the Golden Vase of Naples. (Reproduced from Heydemann, Hall. Winckelmanyisprogramyn, 1886, pi. 3.) 1 This picture, frequently copied in frescoes, has become famous through Goethes admirabledescription which appears in Vol. XXX., 425 f. of his collected works (edition Ootta). 2The hero is accompanied by Medea and two warriors. A satyrs head is visible in the treeand the bust of Nike appears in the sky. ON GREEK AND MY 657 The festival of mourning with subsequent rejoicing that wascelebrated in Cyprus for Adon-Tammuz, was changed in Christiantimes into a kind of Christian mystery-play of the death and resur-rection of Lazarus. Thus the underlying ideas remain the samewith the change of Jason Rescued by Athena from the jaws of the vase from Caere. Roscher, Lex., II., p. 85.


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