[285]. Bild und Lied, p. 42.
[286]. Zeichnungen von Sandro Botticelli zu Dantes Goettlicher Komoedie nach den Originalen im König. Kupferstichkabinet zu Berlin, von Dr. F. Lippmann.
[287]. In canto iii, Charon is an old man; Botticelli drew him as the devil. In the second plate to this same canto the souls are swimming out to Charon’s boat, a fact which Dante does not mention. The illustration to canto xx has only two persons identical with those of the poet, and in Purgatorio iii the souls on the shore and in the boat are additions of the artist.
[288]. Cf. Dilthey in Annali d. Inst. 1876, p. 294, and pl. 35 in Mon. d. Inst. x.
[289]. Vid. Klein’s Euphronios, p. 89, and Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Her. Fur. vol. ii, ed. 1, p. 214.
[290]. Cf. fig. 24, where the female figure on the left is none other than a nurse.
[291]. Bild und Lied, p. 38.
[292]. Cf. figs. 24 and 25 and Baumeister’s Denkmäler, i. p. 142.
[293]. It will be observed that the writer does not share the view of Bethe, Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Theaters im Altertum, p. 142 ff., that the Flugmaschine was not in use in the Greek theatre before 425 B.C. Robert, Hermes, vol. 31, p. 530–577, has conclusively shown the incorrectness of Bethe’s arguments, and not only proved the use of the Flugmaschine for the Medeia, 431 B.C., but also for a much earlier date. Bethe’s remark, Demnach ist für die erste Aufführung der Medea im Jahre 431 ihr Erscheinen in der Höhe, also auch die Anwendung der Flugmaschine, nicht möglich (p. 146), is based upon a false conception of the resources at hand in that period of Athenian architectural activity.
[294]. It has already been pointed out above, p. [159], that Medeia entered the palace to slay the boys, and that they might or might not have been alone. At any rate it was not allowable to represent them in art without some older companion. Robert’s remark, Bild und Lied, p. 39, Den Kindern die bereits bei der Mutter angelangt sind, muss aber jetzt noch ein anderer Begleiter zugestellt werden, is inexplicable. Where had the children gone to reach their mother? Was it not just the reverse, viz. that the mother had gone to them?