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Title: Greek mythology systematized
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Scull, Sarah Amelia
Subjects: Mythology, Greek Emblems
Publisher: Philadelphia : Porter & Coates
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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en clad inarmor; 2. Procession of women, headed by high priest-esses seated in a chariot drawn by white heifers (seeBiTON AND Cleobis) ; 3. Sacrifices in the temple—geese,sows, ewe-lambs, and a hecatomb of white heifers. A brazen shield was fixed in a nearly inaccessibleplace in the theatre ; he who displaced it received asreward a shield and a garland of myrtle. At Olympia (in Elis), temple, Herseum (see ModernResearch). Sacred Objects,—\. Statue of Hera on a throne ; 2. Achest covered with mythic carvings (chest of Cypselus). Ceremonies,—Yi^r^d., i. Every fifth year sixteen ma-trons w^ove a sacred peplos for the statue of Hera; 2.After sacrificing a pig to Hera they bathed in the sacredwell of Peoria; 3. Sacrifices of cows, geese, and ewe-lambs. I. Races in the stadium, by maidens ; the prize was acrown of sacred olive and portions of a cow sacrificed toHera; they might place their painted likenesses in thetemple of Hera. 2. Sixteen matrons performed twosacred dances. HERA. 97
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Juno Barberini. Grecian Comp. Myth. In some attributes Hera = Dione. Foreign Comp. Myth. Roman, Juno; Egyptian, Sati. G 98 GREEK MYTHOLOGY. Literature. In the Trojan War, Hera was the champion of theGreeks. (See Iliad?) Art. Coins of Argos, Statuary,—i. Juno Ludovisi (page 92). Probably thistype of Hera represents the Polycletus idea. 2. Head of Hera, in museum at Naples. 3. Farnese Juno, in same place. 4. Juno Barberini, in Vatican (page 97), so styled by Cardinal Barberini, who discovered it in theViminal Baths, near the church of San Lorenzoon Punisperna. It is one of the most perfectspecimens of antique sculpture. Thought to bea copy of the statue in her temple at Platsea. Modern Research. Olympia.—Recent excavations in this valley, in Elis,have brought to light the temple of Hera (Herseum)which Pausanias mentions as a Doric temple sur-rounded by pillars. Full accounts of the results ofpast and of progressing researches in this valley aregiven in The London Athenceum. One arti

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