39. Head of a Statue of Apollo. In the National Museum, Rome 245 40. Acanthus on a Corinthian Capital

41. Diomedes, Ulysses, and the Palladium. An ancient gem 42. Hector dragged round the Walls of Troy. From a marble tablet in the Capitoline Museum, Rome

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43. A Victim ready for Sacrifice. From a Roman bas-relief
44. Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius. Coin of Antoninus
45. A Coin of Aenea, showing the head of Aeneas
46. Tripod of Apollo. The god, dressed in a long robe, is seated
as he plays the cithara. An ancient gem.
47. Magna Mater. The goddess wears a turreted crown and is
seated in a chariot drawn by two lions. In her left hand
she holds a tympanum. A relief from a Roman altar

48. A Boy Praying. Bronze statue in Berlin
49. Scylla. From a vase-painting. In Naples

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52. A Hunting Scene. Roman mosaic from Carthage

54. Mitra, a Phrygian cap.

55. Mercury. Note the talaria on his feet, the purse in his right hand, and the herald's wand in his left. From a Pompeian wall-painting

57. Hecate. She has one body, but three heads and six hands. On each head is a calathus, and in her hands are two dirks, two whips, and two torches. Beside her are two cistae surrounded by serpents. A man is dancing before her. A bronze amulet

59. A Serpent as genius loci. Wall-painting from Herculaneum 408 60. Figure-head of a Roman Ship 61. The Long-distance Foot-race.

62. Cretan Labyrinth and the Minotaur. Early Cretan coin 63. Neptune (or, probably, Augustus in the rôle of Neptune)

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driving his steeds over the sea. A beautiful gem now in

Boston

64. Somnus. Represented as a winged and bearded man. gem in Berlin

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65. Theseus and the Minotaur. The figure on the right is Minos; on the left, Ariadne. From a Greek vase-painting 450 66. Orpheus and Eurydice. An intaglio of comparatively late

67. Castor and Pollux in the Lower World. Pluto is on a rich
throne, and beside him is Cerberus. A gem in Berlin
68. Triton and his Conch. Engraving from a lamp.
69. Pavor and Pallor on Roman Coins.

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Note the personifica

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70. Chimaera. An ancient gem
71. Ixion bound to the Wheel. A gem in the British Museum
72. Long-robed Priest. A gem in St. Petersburg
73. Corona Civica. A bronze of C. Plotius Rufus, triumvir
auro, argento, aeri flando feriundo. The letters s. c. are
for senatus consulto

74. Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra. Coin of Crete in the British Museum .

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75. The Elder Marcellus and the spolia opima. Two faces of a coin. The spolia are offered in the temple of Jupiter Feretrius

76. The God Tiberinus (or Tiberis). On a coin of Antoninus Pius. In the British Museum

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