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Alternative Title
Podargos
Description
A small cream-colored molded plastic or resin horse figurine, depicted as standing with its front right leg raised and its tail flying behind it, suggesting the animal is in motion. The figure stands on a thin black rectangular base that has short half-spheres that serve as feet.Similar in style to Horse 5 and Horse 38.
41. Podargos. It, in the eighth book of the Illiad, in common with Ethon (q.v.), was one of the four horses which drew the chariot of Hector.
Exhibit label:
PODARGOS, THE HORSE OF HECTOR.
A gift from Elinor Wylie.
—"Sanctuary in Porcelain" in Some of Us.
Dimensions (Length x Width x Height in cm)
4.5 x 0.5 x 3.5
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Homer. Iliad; Hector (Greek mythological character)
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
figures (representations)
Type
Physical Object
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine Collection
Source
Horse 41, Podargos, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Box 3, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
m377_i041.jpg