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Mythology in Marble

Chapter 148: Suggestive Readings.
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A concise guide that pairs brief retellings of classical myths with descriptive analyses of the marble sculptures inspired by them, offering readers accessible explanations of how narrative themes inform pose, expression, and iconography. Each entry includes notes on artistic features and provenance alongside poetic quotations and illustrations to reinforce popular interpretations. Practical tools such as a table of Greek and Roman deity equivalents and a suggested reading list are appended to aid further study. The overall aim is to equip museumgoers and general readers with the background needed to appreciate mythological sculpture without requiring specialized art-historical training.

Suggestive Readings.

Jupiter

Olympian Gods.   W. E. Gladstone, N. A. Review, April, 1892.
Epic of Hades.  Wm. Morris.
Jupiter and Danaë.  J. G. Saxe.
Jove to Hercules.  Schiller.

Juno

Hymn of Terpander to Juno.  Landor.
Marble Faun, Chap. I.  Hawthorne.

Apollo Belvedere

Apollo and the Fates.  R. Browning.
Fable for Critics.  Lowell.
Apollo.  E. C. Stedman.
Apollo Pythias.  R. W. Dixon.
The Sun’s Darling.  Dekker.

Niobe

Songs Unsung.  Morris.
Childe Harold.  Byron.
Daphne and Other Poems.  Tennyson.

Mars

Secular Masque.  Dryden.
Faery Queen.  Spenser.

Laocoon

Laocoon.  Lessing.
Laocoon.  James Sadolet.

Venus

Birth of Venus, New Symbols.  Hake.
Venus Victrix.  D. G. Rossetti.
Venus and Vulcan.  J. D. Saxe.

Hercules

Hercules Spinning.  J. D. Saxe.
Jove to Hercules.  Schiller.

Neptune

Song of the Sirens.  Lowell.
Hymn in Praise of Neptune.  Campion.

Three Fates

Parcæ.  T. B. Aldrich.

Meleager

Death of Meleager.  Swinburne.

Muses

Prayer to the Muses.  E. Arnold.
Spring.  Pope.

Diana

Hymn of the Priestess, Diana.
To Artemis.  A. Lang.
Endymion.  Longfellow.

Ariadne

How Bacchus finds Ariadne.  E. B. Browning.
Hanging of the Crane.  Longfellow.

Minerva

Queen of the Air.  Ruskin.
On an Intaglio Head of Minerva.  T. B. Aldrich.

Orpheus

Orpheus: A Masque.  Mrs. Jas. T. Fields.
Orpheus.  Shelley.
Waking of Eurydice.  Gosse.

Daphne

Daphne.  Swift.
Daphne.  Tennyson.

Proserpine

The Search for Proserpine.  R. H. Stoddard.
The Appeasement of Demeter.  Geo. Meredith.

Cupid and Psyche

Marius the Epicurean.  Walter Pater.
Eros and Psyche.  Dr. Paul Carus.
Marriage of Cupid and Psyche.  E. B. Browning.

Cupid

Cupid’s Birth.  Cosmopolitan, XX., 189.
Death and Cupid.  J. G. Saxe.
Cupid Stung.  E. Arnold.

Perseus

Wonder Book—Gorgon Head.  Hawthorne.

Bacchus

Bacchus.
Bacchus—Poems.  Emerson.
Praise of Dionysus.  Gosse.
Dionysus—Greek Studies.  Walter Pater.

Hebe

Hebe.  Lowell.
Fall of Hebe.  Moore.

Ganymede

Palace of Art.  Tennyson.

Mercury

Mercury.  Boyesen.
Phœbus and Hermes.  Goethe.

Pan

The Dead Pan.  E. B. Browning.
Pan in Love.  W. W. Story.
Pan and Pitys.  Landor.