Mythology & Folklore

Book XVI, 60

by Simonides of Ceos c. 556 – 468 BC

Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. V, 1918)

Mythology & Folklore

A. Who is this? B. A Bacchant. A. And who carved her? B. Scopas. A. And who made her frenzied, Bacchus or Scopas? B. Scopas.

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