the world on their shoulders
holding up against the storm
Schola Lingvarvm, Geometriae et Arithmeticae
Muse of Music
muse on a rooftop
Muse of Drama
Kaikias the north-east wind
Apeliotes the south-east wind
Hercules, Euros and Apeliotes
Euros the east wind
Notos the south wind
Lips the south-west wind
Zephyros the west wind
Atlas and Hercules
globe on the Tower of the Winds
the south winds
south side of the tower
sunlight on the world
the east wind
the south wind
the south-west wind
the west wind
the north-west wind
the north wind
the north-east wind
the south-east wind
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"The figures of the Eight Winds appeared on the original Tower of the Winds in Athens and were used by the sculptor John Bacon (1740-99) as the basis for his designs for the flying figures round the top of the stonework of the Observatory. Bacon also designed the two statues (in cast iron) of Atlas and Hercules who support the globe on the roof. The condition of the Windrush stone of which the Eight Winds are made compares unfavourably with that of the Coade stone of the Zodiac and other figures below, which has successfully withstood the elements for two centuries."
www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/about/history/radcliffe-observatory
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