Thorwaldsen possessed in a remarkable degree the genuine antique spirit
and in this figure of Hope he has embodied the calm simplicity and
cheerful repose which make the key note of the best Greek sculpture.
There is about it a noble charm which seems to be a reflex of an inward
purity. The smile Hope wears is delicately expressive of her name.
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.
Bibliography.
Books recommended should further study be desired:
Studies of the Gods in Greece. Dyer.
Juventus Mundi. Gladstone.
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome. Berens.
Lays and Legends of Ancient Greece. Blackie.
Manual of Mythology in its Relation to Greek Art. Collignon.
Manual of Mythology. Cox.
Classic Myths. Gayley.
History of Sculpture. Lübke.
Age of Fable; or Beauties of Mythology. Bulfinch.
Handbook of Greek Sculpture. Gardner.
Studies in Greek Art. Harrison.
Greek Studies. Pater.
Myths of Old Greece, I., II., III. Pratt.
Synonymous Deities.
_Greek._ _Roman._
Zeus (zūs) Jupiter (jö´pi-ter)
Hera (hē´rä) Juno (jö´nō)
Ares (ā´rēz) Mars (märz)
Aphrodite (af-rō-dī´tē) Venus (vē´nus)
Artemis (är´tē-mis) Diana (dī-an´ä)
Athene (a-thē´nē) Minerva (mi-ner´vä)
Demeter (de-mē´ter) Ceres (sē´rēz)
Dionysus (dī-ō-nī´sus) Bacchus (bak´us)
Eros (ē´ros) Cupid (kū´pid)
Hades (hā´dēz) Pluto (plö´tō)
Hephæstus (he-fes´tus) Vulcan (vul´kan)
Hermes (her´mēz) Mercury (mer-kū-ri)
Leto (lē´to) Latona (lā-tō´nä)
Nike (nī´-kē) Victoria (vik-tō´ri-ä)
Persephone (per-sef´ō-nē) Proserpine (pros´er-pin)
Poseidon (pō-sī´don) Neptune (nep´tūn)
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Transcriber’s note:
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they
were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; unpaired quotation
marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left
unpaired.
Page 63: “unparalleled” was printed as “unparalled”; corrected here.
Page 73: The poem attributed to Ben Johnson was written by John Keates,
and differs from standard versions of the poem.
Page 167: “Hephæstus” was printed without the “t”, but the
pronunciation was printed with it.