Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 275
253 VASES: ARTISTIC TRADITION XV their connection with the scene is less clear. We have in the midst as before Triptolemus between the two goddesses. The figure with the torches behind Demeter is given in the in- scription as Hecate, and we may suppose the balancing figure on the other side, who… … Fig. 87. — Hydria. though indeed she may perhaps be a mortal woman. The two flanking figures on either side are less easy to identify. He on the left, who holds the cornucopiae, has been called Hades ; and Hades has some right to be present at the scene ; but he would scarcely appear as an old…
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