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AN ARCHEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE GODDESS OF WOMANHOOD
αἰδοίν χρυσοστέφανον καλὴν Άφροδἰτην ᾄσουαι--HOMERIC HYMN.
CHICAGO LONDON THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY 1916
COPYRIGHT BY THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY 1916
The Mother of the Gods. Painting by Francisca P. Del Mar 38
Carrying in Procession the Symbol of Istar 97
Egyptian Representation of the Dead Man and His Soul 99
The Immaculate Conception. By Murillo 109
Benten, The Japanese Goddess of Divine Love 113
The Creation of Woman. By Michelangelo 138
Adam and Eve in Paradise. By Gustave Doré 139
The First Family. By Schnorr von Carolsfeld 140
Coins of Cilicia, Tarsus, Gaulos and Perga 148
Coins of Emesa, Iasos Caria, Paphos and Lydia 151
Attic Sculpture of the Fifth Century B. C. 158
Aphrodite of Alcamenes, Known as Venus Genetrix 159
The Venus of Praxiteles on a Cnidian Coin 162
The Venus Head in the Museum of Bardos 169
Head of the Cnidian Venus. Front view 172
Melos (Italian _Milo_), one of the smallest Greek islands, would scarcely be known at all except to specialists in geography or ancient history, had not a happy accident brought to light on one of its hillsides that most beautiful piece of sculpture which ever since its discovery has been known as the Venus of Milo.
_Melon_ means apple, and the island of Melos (the “apple island”) belongs to the Cyclades, being the most southern and western member of that group. It lies almost straight west from the southern tip of the Peloponnesus and in a direction south to south-west from Athens.
Melos was inhabited in ancient times by Dorians who sympathized with Sparta against Athens, but when the Athenians conquered it after a most stubborn resistance they slaughtered the entire Dorian male population and replaced them by Athenian colonists. Since then the island remained absolutely faithful to Athens, in fact it was the last possession which still belonged to Athens when the Ionian confederacy broke up, and the friendly relations between Melos and her metropolis continued even after Greece had become a Roman province.