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Four Seasons Mosaic in Cyprus
Four Seasons Mosaic in the House of Dionysos

Four Seasons Mosaic in the House of Dionysos

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This damaged pavement mosaic of the Four Seasons is from the House of Dionysos in Paphos, Cyprus. The fours seasons are in the corners. In order from the top left running clockwise are Summer, Spring, Autumn, and Winter.

The Theoi Project points to a passage from Ovid's Metamorphoses that tells the names and attributes of the Seasons:

Ovid, Metamorphoses 2. 24 ff (trans. Melville)
"Enrobed in purple vestments Phoebus [Helios the sun] sat, high on a throne of gleaming emeralds. Attending him on either side stood Dies (Day) and Mensis (Month) and Annus (Year) and Saecula (Century), and Horae (Seasons) disposed at equal intervals between. Young Ver (Spring) was there, with coronet of flowers, and naked Aestas (Summer), garlanded with grain; Autumnus (Autumn) was there with trampled vintage stained, and icy Hiems (Winter), rime upon his locks."

For more, see: "Archaeology in Cyprus," by Ellen Herscher, American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 99, No. 2 (Apr., 1995), pp. 257-294.

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