rows, Diana, like Apollo, was said to carry a quiver of darts; the slender arc of the crescent moon was her bow. Thence it was natural to consider her fond of hunting,

the bear, the boar, the dog, the goat, and the hind. The poet Word

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and lonely, so Diana was said to watch with the sick and help the unfortunate. The pale, white light of the moon is a natural symbol of purity, hence Diana was a maiden goddess above all

ir." The English Keats, who delighted in the old Greek myths, has also described the charms of "the haunter chaste of river sides, and

so Lowell's Endymion fo

course across the sky.[10] Though she seems to be but just springing

chariot across the sky by da

-dazzlingly th

their

The crescent moon gleams above her brow. The vehicle is the small two-wheeled chariot used among the Romans, sc

quiver the subject should be called by

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d shows "her fulgent head uncovered, dazzling the beholder's sight." It is with a bright, cheerful countenance that she beams upon her worshippers. A sense of courage and exhilaration is expres

er far apart, is the index of her nature. Her free life in the woods has developed a well poised womanhood. Fear is unknown to her; pain and

e great fireplace in the Hall of the Vine Trellis. We may well believe that the decoration went far towards furnishing t

the crescent moon. This fact may have suggested to Correggio, or his patrons, the subject of the moon

they furnished themes for the painter; in England, for the poet. The English Ben Jonson, living a half a century later than Correggio,[12] but representing in a certain

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