At Argos*, there was an ancient wooden statue of Zeus which had a third eye in its forehead. […] On the coins of Attica there was a moon as well as an owl and olive branch. […] Looked at in connection with nature, there is little doubt but that the Muses were originally nymphs of the fountains. […] So general became the custom of building temples in groves, that all places devoted to sacred purposes, even where there were no trees, were called groves. […] Not only are the personages less characteristically portrayed, but there is a continual tendency to extravagance, the sure index of an inferior imagination.”