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Identifier: grecianromanmyth00dwi (find matches)
Title: Grecian and Roman mythology
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Dwight, M. A. (Mary Ann), 1806-1858 Lewis, Tayler, 1802-1877
Subjects: Mythology, Classical
Publisher: New York Chicago : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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he ancients, that of Apollo is one ofthe most sublime and lovely, because it dissolves the idea of a destruc-tive power in that of youth and beauty •; thus harmoniously combiningtwo ideas entirely opposite. It seems owing to this circumstance, too,that plastic art in the most beautiful representation of Apollo, which,as a sacred bequest of antiquity, was spared by all-destroying time, hadattained to a degree of perfection comprising all that is truly beautiful,the sight of which fills the soul with admiration, because of the harmo-nious multiplicity it expresses. The Apollo Belvidere is esteemed themost excellent and sublime of all the ancient productions. It wasfound about twelve leagues from Rome, in the ruins of ancient Antium,and purchased by Pope Julius II. when a cardinal; he removed it tothe Belvidere of the Vatican from whence it takes its name. Apollo Musagetes is another celebrated statue which takes its namefrom his occupation as Musagetes or conductor of the songs of the
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APOLLO MUSAGETES. PHCEBOS-APOLLO. 180 Muses. It is of Pentelic marble, about five feet eight inches high,dressed in a long, loose tunic fastened round the waist by a girdle ;the chlamys (or scarf) is fastened on the shoulders, and falls down theback in graceful folds. He appears listening attentively, and is accom-panying the songs on the greater lyre. Visconti, who was formerlyconservator of the statues in the Napoleon Museum, in which this statuewas placed, thinks that this dress is that of the Citharides, or playerson the lyre ; and that it is an antique ctfpy of the Apollo Citharidesof Timarchides, which was formerly in the portico of Octavia at Romewith the nine Muses of Philiscus. This statue was found at Tivoli in1774, in the ruins of the country-house of Cassius, called the Piancelladi Cassio. The head bound with laurels has been broken off, but isthe original; the right hand and part of the lyre are restorations. The statues and busts of this god are always distinguished by t

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