The Forsyth Park Fountain, as originally designed and installed, incorporates four spouting Triton figures carrying shell horns (representing the mythological Greek messenger of the sea, half man and half fish).
Blowing the Horn at Forsyth Park Fountain
Side View of Figure Blowing the Horn at Forsyth Park Fountain
Another View of Figure Blowing the Horn at Forsyth Park Fountain
Narcissus refers to a figure in Greek mythology, a young man who fell in love with his reflection and was transformed into a flower, and the genus of plants, including daffodils. Daffodils are commonly known as Narcissus, so they are the same plant with different names.
Narcissus
There is a lot of symmetry in the stairs of the State of Virginia Capitol building in Richmond adding character and class of Palladian architecture. Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio. What is today recognized as Palladian architecture evolved from his concepts of symmetry, perspective and the principles of formal classical architecture from ancient Greek and Roman traditions.
Chippewa Square in Savannah, Georgia was designed in 1815 and named to commemorate the Battle of Chippewa in the War of 1812. In the center stands a bronze statue of the colony’s founder, General James Edward Oglethorpe, who faces south protecting Savannah from the Spanish in Florida. The Eastman-Stoddard House is a 12,000 sq ft Greek Revival Mansion which overlooks Chippewa Square. Although construction of this Greek revival mansion was started in 1844 for Moses Eastman, a local silversmith, it was not completed until 1847 for John Stoddard.
Chippewa Square is also known as Forrest Gump Square, where the bus stop scenes from the Oscar winning motion picture were filmed on the north end of the square.
“Actaeon” by Paul Howard Manship at Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina.
In pain and terror Actaeon (a famous hero in Greek mythology) leaps forward, his body in a sharp diagonal. Antlers sprout from his forehead. One dog has sprung on his body from the rear, and another runs under his feet, with lifted snarling head.
Running from the Dogs