Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse paintings of Melpoméne, she is represented with a tragic mask and also often holds in her other hand a knife or club. In Greek mythology, she is the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who had eight other daughters, Melpoméne's sisters and the eight other muses are: Calliope, muse of epic poetry; Clio, muse of history; Euterpe, muse of flute playing; Terpsichore, muse of dancing; Erato, muse of erotic poetry; Thalia muse of comedy; Polyhymnia, muse of hymns; and Urania, muse of astronomy. Reynolds was inspired not only by Sarah Siddons' extreme talent to embody the tragic heroine in Macbeth, but
Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever also parts of a scroll of the Twelve Prophets book. Amongst other things, in response to rumors, that parts of the sold scrolls came from Israel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem sent two expeditions in 1960 and 1961 for exploration thorough Wadi to the west of the Dead Sea. In the expedition B of the company in spring 1961 under the direction of Yohanan Aharoni, who examined mainly the caves on the southern edge of Nahal Hever in Cave no. 8 (the Cave of Horror) it finds: Among other things, fragments of the Greek scroll. Most of which only a few