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Headword:
Gês
agalma
Adler number: gamma,257
Translated headword: earth's statue
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They model Hestia as a woman, like the earth, holding up a kettledrum, since the earth encloses the winds below herself.
Greek Original:Gês agalma: gunaika plattousi tên Hestian, hoionei tên gên, tumpanon bastazousan, epeidê tous anemous hê gê huph' heautên sunkleiei.
Note:
(Again under
epsilon 3212.) Unduly abbreviated from ps.-Codinus,
Patria Constantinopoleos 2.13 (Preger,
Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum 157.3-6): 'they say that Hestia was a woman and they model her etc.'.
Keywords: art history; geography; historiography; imagery; meter and music; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 July 2002@17:04:40.
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