Service described by Apuleius [[p. 176]]: Metam. XI. XX. While the people were praying the priest made a circuit of the altars, which were evidently, as at Pompeii, distributed about the temple in the court.
Perseus rescuing Andromeda [[p. 179]]: that the male figure is intended to represent Perseus and not Hermes is certain from the description of the figure when first excavated—"alla cinta tiene una testa alata" (Fiorelli, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 171). All trace of the Medusa head has now disappeared.
Initiation into the mysteries of Isis [[p. 182]]: Apul. Metam. XI. XXI, XXIII.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE TEMPLE OF ZEUS MILICHIUS
Excavation (September 27 to October 18, 1766; March 15-22 and June 14, 1798): Fiorelli, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 1, pp. 194-195, pt. 2, pp. 70-71.
Remains, identification, restoration: Mazois, Les ruines de Pompéi, vol. 4, p. 22, pl. 4-6; Nissen, Pomp. Studien, pp. 175-177, 535-536; Mau, Pomp. Beiträge, pp. 13-15, 227-232; Mau, Geschichte der dec. Wandmalerei, pp. 60-61; Mau, Das Capitolium und der Tempel des Zeus Meilichios in Pompeji, Röm. Mitth., vol. 11 (1896), pp. 141-149. An impossible restoration is given by Weichardt, Pompeji vor der Zerstörung, pp. 116-123.
Two statues and a bust of terra cotta [[p. 184]]: von Rohden, Die Terracotten von Pompeji (Stuttgart, 1880), pp. 42-43, pl. 29.
Oscan inscription [[p. 184]]: Zvetaieff, Sylloge inscriptionum Oscarum, no. 62, pl. 10; von Planta, Grammatik der Oskisch-Umbrischen Dialekte, vol. 2, p. 499; Conway, Italic Dialects, vol. 1, pp. 58-59; Nissen, Pomp. Studien, pp. 531-536.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE STABIAN BATHS
Roman baths in general: Marquardt, Privatleben der Römer, Edit. 2, pt. 1, pp. 269-297; Mau, article Bäder in the Pauly-Wissowa Realencyclopädie, vol. 2, pt. 2, pp. 2743-2758; Nissen, Pomp. Studien, pp. 152-155.