On Representations of Helios and of Selene

L. Savignoni

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On Representations of Helios and of Selene

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L. Savignoni

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Among the various references which Athenaeus makes in his Δειπνοσοφισταί to the encounter of Herakles with Helios, when he was going to the island of Erytheia, we find the following (Book xi. 39 ff):—

Φερεκύδης δ᾿ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ τῶν ίστοριῶν προειπὼν περὶ τοῦ ᾿ Ωκεανοῦἐπιφέρει ὁ δ᾿Ηρακλῆς ἔλκεται ἐπ᾿αὐτὸν τὸ τόξον ὡς βαλῶν καὶ ὁ Ηλιοςπαύσασθαι κελεύει ὄ δὲ δείσας παύεται. ῾´ Ηλιος δὶ ἀντὶ τούτου διδωσιναὐτῷ τὸ δέπας τὸ χρύσεον ὄ αὐτὸν ἐφόρει σὺν ταῖς ἴπποις ἐπὴν δύῃ διὰ τοῦΩκεαυοῦ τὴν νύκτα πρὸς ἐῴην ἴν᾿ἀνίσχει ὁ ᾿´ Ηλιος ἔπειτα πορεύεται ὁ῾ Ηρακλῆς ἐν τῷ δέπαϊ τούτῳ τούτῳ ἐς τὴν ῾ Ερύθειαν κ.τ.λ.

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Information: The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 19 , November 1899 , pp. 265 - 272

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/623853 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1899

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^{page 265 note 1} Gräber der Hellenen, Taf. XV. 5; Gerhard, , Gesamm. Abhandl. Taf. V. 5.Google Scholar Rosoher, Lexikoni. i col. 1995; cf. ibid. col. 2204.

^{page 265 note 2} Museum Gregor, ii. Tav. LXXIV. 1; Gerhard loc. cit. No. 4 Auserl. Vasenb. Taf. CIX. Roscher ibid. col. 2204.

^{page 265 note 3} Voi. xiii. 1892 Pl. I.–III. p. 1 sqq. (E. Sellers). For the excavations at Eretria cf. Tsountas, , Ἐφημ. 1886 p. 31Google Scholarsqq. From the same excavations come the lekythos Polytechnicon 3507 published Jahrbuch. d. Inst. ii. p. 163; another, 3508 published Antike Denkmāler i. Taf. XXIII. 3 (cf. Jahrbuch. ibid. p. 242) and various other lekythi and small oinochoai as far as the inventory number 3514; moreover the lekythos 3533 (Ephebus on horseback) etc.; all vases with the figures drawn on white ground, or else red-figured.

^{page 266 note 1} The drawing has been cleverly executed by Sig. Berretti, after a careful tracing.

^{page 267 note 1} Élite cêram. ii. Pl. CXV. 1.

^{page 267 note 2} Furtwängler, , Vasensammlung 1983.Google Scholar

^{page 267 note 3} C. Robinson, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Catalogue of Vases No. 335.

^{page 267 note 4} Laborde, , Vases Lamberg ii. p. 13, vign. 3Google Scholar; Élite céram. ii. Pl. CVI.

^{page 267 note 6} Furtwängler, , Vasensammlung 2293Google Scholar. Gerhard, , Trinkschalen Taf. VIII. 3, 4Google Scholar; Élite céram. ii. Pl. CXVII. The figure in Gerhard, , Gemmiti. Abhandl. Taf. VIII. 3Google Scholar and in Roscher, Lexiken ii. col. 3139, is reversed. Cf. also Hartwig, , Meisterschalen p. 356.Google Scholar

^{page 268 note 1} Wiener Vorlegeblätter 1889 Taf. XI. 8.

^{page 269 note 1} In the Plate the incised lines and the white colour are represented by the natural tone of the paper; the red is indicated by a half tint, and the veiled white of the parts immersed in the water by another, lighter half-tint. The flaked-off portions are indicated by small black strokes.

^{page 269 note 2} Miss Sellers in the text dealing with the Pl. I. cited mentions a fictile b.f. fragment from Naukratis (Catal. B. 103₁₉) in which the water is indicated in an analogous way.

^{page 270 note 1} Invent. No. 4294. Acquired in 1888. Put together out of several pieces. Height 0·33. The interior is varnished. It is provided also with a cover (omitted in the photograph) adorned with branches of laurel, palmettes and lotos-flowers.

^{page 270 note 2} Cf. Furtwängler, Sammlung Sabouroff, text to Taf. LXIII.

^{page 270 note 3} By Rapp in Roscher, Lexikon i. col. 1277, and at first also by Furtwängler she was interpreted as Eos; Robert, in Hermes 1884 p. 467Google Scholarsqq. recognised Nyx: but the presence of the lunar disc absolutely excludes both these interpretations. Cf. Weizsäcker in Roscher, , Lexikon iii. p. 575.Google Scholar

^{page 270 note 4} See the vaso in Comete Rendu 1860 Pl. III. and another in Gerhard, , Gesamm. Abhandl. Pl. VIII. 8Google Scholar, repeated in Roscher, Lexikon ii. col. 3166. Cf. the analogous representation of Helios in Gerhard ibid. Taf. V. 1, and Roscher ib. i. col. 1998.

^{page 270 note 5} Cf. the κύκλος πανσέληνος of Euripides, , Ion v. 1146Google Scholarsqq.

^{page 270 note 6} Cf. for example the vase at Florence, Heydemann, , Hall. Winckelmannsprogramm 1878 Taf. III. 2Google Scholar; Roscher Lexikon ii. col. 3140. A small r.f. lekythos with the head of Selene and the half-moon, unpublished, is mentioned by Hartwig, , Mcisterschalen p. 356Google Scholar note 1. See for the rest Roscher loc. cit. col. 3131.

^{page 271 note 1} Cf. Hymn. Hom. 32, 5. Roscher ibid. 3133.

^{page 271 note 2} Sauer, , Athen. Mittheil. xiii. 1891, p. 84Google Scholar, Taf. III. The hypothesis that Selene rode on horseback was sustained by Cecil Smith in this Journal, vol. ix. p. 9.

^{page 271 note 3} MissSellers, in Classical Review vi. 370Google Scholar proposes to recognize Nyx in accordance with the Euripidean description in Aristoph. Thesm. v. 1065; an opinion accepted reservedly by Furtwäiigler, Masterpieces p. 465.Google Scholar

^{page 271 note 4} Cf. Hymn. Hom. 32; Pindar, , Olymp, iii. 19Google Scholar; Euripid., Sappl. 990Google Scholarsqq.

^{page 271 note 5} Fiorelli, Vasi Cumani Tav. VI.

^{page 271 note 6} Cf. c.g. the vase at Bologna Annal, d. Inst. 1880 Tav. IV. where Hermes precedes the quadriga which bears Herakles to Olympos, moving, as here, over the sea, indicated by fish.

^{page 271 note 7} On the relief representing Echelos and Basile, the mother of Helios and Selene, Hermes acts as guide to the chariot (῾ Εφημ ἀρχ 1893 Pl. IX.; Collignoii, , Sculpture Grecque ii. p. 190)Google Scholar; but this is not enough to establish a connection.

^{page 271 note 8} See Roscher, Lexikon i, col. 2375 sq.

^{page 272 note 1} Roscher, ibid. ii. col. 3142. On a gem at Berlin, Hermes is figured as Hypnos. Müller-Wieseler, , Denk. a. K. ii. 328.Google Scholar

^{page 272 note 2} Cf. Jahn, O., Arch. Beiträge p. 88.Google Scholar

^{page 272 note 3} Klein, , Meistersignaturen p. 210Google Scholar; Gerhard, Lichtgotthcilcn, Taf. VII. 4Google Scholar.

^{page 272 note 4} Ilias Ω 343; Odyss. ϵ 47; ω 3; Verg., Acn. iv. 242Google Scholar.

^{page 272 note 5} Bull. corr. hell. xvi. 1892 p. 336.

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