[176] The picture of girls raising their dress to run is not found in Homer or Hesiod. The action, as Francke notes, is commonly represented in art from the seventh century, and (although Gemoll rejects the idea) it is quite possible that the writer may have been influenced by such works of art (Francke p. 26). At all events, the pictorial touch is rather after the manner of a later poet. Baumeister compares
. (Compare this description of maidens running by the side of the chariot with the simple statement in Od. 13.84, 319.)
