I guess you would have to say Pegasus Unicorn with the wings and all.Turns out that Pliny depicted the body of a horse, head of a deer, feet of an elephant the tail of a lion, with a black tapered horn projecting a length of two cubits for the Unicorn in his "Natural History" written about year 30. Those in the middle ages took this work to be the truth about life in the natural world.
Looks as though he might have had many flights of fancy as well as bad luck since he was buried in Pompeii by Vesuvius.
The Graphic is from Angel at her blog
beautiful pix, goatman.......por Pliny........wrong about so many things......and especially about his choice of living accomodations!!!! I'm hoping Maguire's gorgeous words inspired you!
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Lol...I probably could have got along well with Pliny! Re the flights of fancy!
ReplyDeleteWonderful photo...I like this Pegasus Unicorn much better than Pliny's idea, even if his was very creative!
Goatman, Goatman
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Man of my heart. Love Unicorns.
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Magical!
When I was younger, I was fascinated by Unicorns. I was always checking Unicorn books out of the library, especially fantasy art books.
ReplyDeleteI tried to find an illustration of Pliny's Unicorn on the internet, but it doesn't seem to exist.
Such a wonderful picture of the unicorn!
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So nice to have you drop by again!
lol! Flights of fancy
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ashes to ashes for those incinerated
Unicorns fantasies reincarnated
Goatman,
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peace friend,
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A search of "Natural History" reveals the description by pliny of this beast (Book 8, Chapter 3l; Animals of India) but no pictures. This man was apparently not a sketcher! And the tail is described as that of a boar, not a lion as stated in the OED (Oxford English Dictionary).
ReplyDeleteStill looking for a rendering of the original monoceros (unicorn).
This is one of the most beautiful unicorn pictures that I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteLove the pic, Goatman - spent much of my eldest daughter's early years looking for pictures of unicorns, she so adored them... got me hooked too! :-D
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