This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...It is impossible to avoid noting that just in this quarter of Athens we seem to be in a very nest of totemistic reminiscence. Herakles the dog is near at hand. A little farther is the deme of Alopekae, where the fox-men dwelt. It may be that at one time they all maintained themselves in equal rivalry, till the goat-man ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...It is impossible to avoid noting that just in this quarter of Athens we seem to be in a very nest of totemistic reminiscence. Herakles the dog is near at hand. A little farther is the deme of Alopekae, where the fox-men dwelt. It may be that at one time they all maintained themselves in equal rivalry, till the goat-man came and triumphed; and even the memory of their origin became extinct--Lykos and many another had to fly before /Egeus and the a?gis-bearing Athene. Pausanias mentions no statue of the god, but Lucian is kinder. It will be remembered that the dialogue Anacharsis" takes place in the gymnasium of the Lykeion. It was there that the astonished Scythian saw the young men of Athens diverting themselves after a fashion that seemed so strange--" Some locked close together and tripping one another up by the heels, some writhing and twisting, rolling in the mire, and begriming themselves like so many hogs; and when we asked of Solon what manner of place this was, Solon made answer, 'This place is called the gymnasium, and is sacred to Apollo Lykeios.' Observe his statue, the head reclining on his right hand, with a bow in his left. It represents the god as rising from long labour." From this account of Lucian's, it seems probable that the type of Apollo with his hand to his head, which occurs Fig. 15.--Coin: on Athenian coins (fig. 15), is a copy of the APOI.LO LYKEIOS.. T, . statue in the Lykeion. From this passage of Lucian it would seem that the statue of the god stood actually in the gymnasium, not in the temple. Apollo had by this time nothing of the wolf about him; he is simply the patron of gymnastic training, resting after his own athletic labours. Probably the gymnasium of the Kynosarges was but an appendage to that of the Lykei...
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