Plate 2. PITTACUS, LORD OF LESBUS
One of the seven wise men of Greece, in whose reign Sappho was perhaps banished to Sicily. The bust was found in Asia Minor in a Roman villa (100 A.D.). Formerly in Baltimore in the collection of David M. Robinson, now in the Museum of Budapest. Cf. The Annual of the Budapest Museum, II, 1919-1920, p. 3. For other replicas cf. Lippold, Griechische Porträt-Statuen, p. 72
Plate 3. MYTILENE
Looking across the severing sea to Asia Minor
Plate 4. THE STORY OF PHAON
From a fifth century hydria in Florence by the Meidias painter himself. Phaon, tired of the ladies’ love-making, is seated in the middle below with the inscription “Phaon” over his head. Aphrodite is above in a chariot drawn by Pothos and Himeros. Reproduced from Milani, Monumenti Scelti del R. Museo Archeologico di Firenze, pl. III
Plate 5. THE BEAUTIFUL PHAON