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ladies are depicted standing in a car at a boar-hunt !—perhaps 
“in at the death ’’—certainly makes for considerable qualifica- 
tion, and, if succeeded by similar finds, for complete reversal of 
the non-sporting theory. 
On Circe’s Island, Odysseus strikes down “‘a tall antlered 
stag ’’’ as ‘‘ he was coming down from his pasture in the wood- 
land to the river, for verily the might of the Sun was sore upon 
him.” He bears the ‘‘ huge beast ’’ across his neck to the black 
ship of his companions, who soon devour it. This is the only 
mention of venison in Homer (Od., X. 158 ff.). 
1 G, Rodenwaldt in Tiryns (Athens, 1912), II. 96 ff. pls. 12 f. 
