EditorialPurpura mancinella, Print, Thais (Mancinella) alouina, common name : the Alou rock shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
EditorialAncient musical instruments and masks. A Greek barbiton or harp (1), a mask of Hercules furens of Euripides (2), a mask of Thais from Terence's play of the Eunochs (3), lyre player from volume 4, plate 42 of the Herculaneum paintings (4) and lyres from...
EditorialTiger leafwing, Consul fabius Nymphalis hippona, upper side 1, under side 2, orsis bluewing, Myscelia orsis Nymphalis orsis male 3, and Ceretes thais moth, Castnia thais 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Ill...
EditorialAncient musical instruments and masks. A Greek barbiton or harp (1), a mask of Hercules furens of Euripides (2), a mask of Thais from Terence's play of the Eunochs (3), lyre player from volume 4, plate 42 of the Herculaneum paintings (4) and lyres from...