A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 482
he chose with the loser. Apollo played the cithara, and theMuses decided in his favor. Apollo bound Marsyas to a tree andflayed him alive. His blood formed the River Marsyas, and Apollohung his skin in the cave from which that stream flows. The statuesof Marsyas were erected as a warning against… … Meleager. (Pompeii, Painting.) Althaea. He was in the expedition of the Argonauts, f.nd was after-wards leader of his companions.He slew the Calydonian boar.He gave the hide to Atalantawhom he. loved, but the sonsof Thestius, brothers of Althaea,took it away from her. Me-leager slew them in…
Art and mythology · Christian art and symbolism
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