Papers of the Archaeological Institute of America

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reappears, in the decrepitude pf Greek culture, the archaic idea is wholly lost, and we see nothing but an ugly beast: the hungry, carnal monster depicted in the shape of a con- ventional dragon.
Thus it came about that in Roman art, when the story of the exploit was again popularized and freely paraphrased by Latin mythographers, the Ketos became at last a true ceta- cean, or sea-dragon. Subsequent to the isolated red-figured vase and the Dodona relief, we do not find this scene depicted in an
...y work of ancient art until after the advent of the Chris- tian pra.^ When, after this long break, the subject is again taken up, the change has been fully effected. No less than six ^ This is a highly remarkable fact, for the story of Herakles and Hesione vras, in the third century before Christ, still sufficiently popular to have been chosen as the subject of a comedy, called Hesumt, by the poet Alexis. Rib- beck (Otto), DU Romische Tragbdie im ZeUalter der Refmblik^ Leipzig, 1875.
p. 46, is thus in error when he asserts that no Greek drama is known to have treated of this legend.


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