A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 470
hehorses. Eating the flesh oftheir master tamed vhem.Hercules founded the city ofAbdera in honor of his friend,and then took the mares to Eurystheus, who set them free, and theywere destroyed by wild beasts on Mount Olyn^pus. (9.) Seizure ofthe girdle of Hippolyte. This queen of the Amazons had a… … Hercules and horses of Diomedes. (MuseoBorbonico.) ILLUSTRATED IN ART. Aiyo But Hera excited all the Amazones against Mm. A quarre ensued,in which Hercules killed Hippolyte, and seized her girdle. On hisreturn he stopped at Troas and rescued Hesione from the monstersent by Neptune (Poseidon). Her…
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