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sician. This statue has been lost 131 GREEK MYTHS AND THEIR ART but it is believed that a statue found in the villa ofCassius, in 1774, is a copy from the work of Scopas,and this is now carefully preserved in the Vaticanin Rome. The picture shows the god crowned with laurel,playing on a cithern and… … 132 XXVII ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE Apollo greatly loved one of the Muses by thename of Calliope, and to them was born a sonwhom they named Orpheus. His father gave hima lyre and taught him to play on it. Orpheus became a poet also and wrote the songshe sang, accompanied with his lyre. The hardesthearts…
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