A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 448
cchicfrenzy, believed him to be awild beast and tore him inpieces. At Argos the peoplerefused to receive him as agod, until he drove all thewomen mad to convincethem of his power. At Ica-ria he hired a vessel whichbelonged to Tyrrhenian pi-rates to go to Naxos. Theyattempted to take him toAsia to… … Dionysus (Bacchus) (Painting at Pompeii). dolphins. After thus showing himself a god in various places, hetook his mother out of Hades, and carried her to Olympus. Manyfabulous beings are said to be the offspring of this god, but of allwhom he loved, ^^j-iadne is most noted (Ariadne). In the…
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