fluentisonus:fluentisonus:today’s very specific genre of greek vase painting: helen hatching from he
fluentisonus:fluentisonus:today’s very specific genre of greek vase painting: helen hatching from her egg“[In Sparta] is a sanctuary of Hilaeira and of Phoebe … Here there his been hung from the roof an egg tied to ribands, and they say that it is the famous egg that legend says Leda brought forth.”– Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.16.1, trans. Jones -- source link
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