" C. M., 46.
" D. L. xl.
" C. C, p. 35, 72 ; A., p. 395 ; A.,
1830, 1832, ccliv. p. 245.
" V. XXXV.
»* G. A v., IxxxvL

w D'H.. iii. 77.
V A. Z., 1844, xxiv. 385; M., iv. x.;
A., 1844, 200. D.; Silenus nunee a
young Satyr, R A. R, 1609.
w V. P., cUi; B.A.B^1003.
B B



870 OREEK POTTERY.
Tantalus ;^ and Marsjas instructing Olympus.' To
belongs the Niobids ;* Apollo and the Nymph Cyrene ;
and the Hesperides.*

The descent of Orpheus ' to Hades to rescue Eurydice
is the subject of vases of the later style. The scene of
Hades shows not only Hades and Persephone, but also
the Danaids,^ Sisyphus, Theseus, and Peirithous chained
and watched,^ Hercules dragging away Cerberus, and
the Furies and Alcestis.® On other vases are represented
Ixion,^ Hermes, Eros, Pan, Rhadamanthus, Triptolemus,
.^cus and Rhadamanthus, Acheron, the Styx,^® and
Mega^ra, and the Heraclids." The punishment of Sisy-
phus is often repeated.^' Elysium is also painted.^*

Of rare occurrence and uncertain locality are the
reputed scenes of water-drawing, though they are perhaps
Athenian ; ^^ the supposed Enorches and Daisa,^^ and the
parody of the Cranes and Pigmies, ^^ probably Hyper-
borean.
The events of the Trojan war are so numerous that it
is necessary to divide them into three main sections.
I. The ante-Homerica, or events before the poems of
Homer, and especially the argument of the Ilias. II. The



» V.F., ciii. A.Z., 1852, 234.
2 B. A. B., 841. " A. Z., 1843, 191, 192 ; A. Z., 1843,

3 A. Z., 1844, i. 228 ; B. A. N. I tav- p. 176 ; M., iL 1837, xlix. A. 1837,
iii. 209-262 ; A. Z., 1844, xiv.
