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Lips the south-west wind

Lips the south-west wind
Tower of the Winds, Oxford
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Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford:

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.

Lips (or Livos) was the Greek deity of the south-west wind. He was often portrayed as a young man holding a ship's stern-post, because the south-west wind blew straight into the harbour of Piraeus, preventing ships from sailing.

www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/about/history/radcliffe-observatory

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