A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 479
e thefather of a centaur. Ixion was punished for his impious ingratitude byHermes (Mercury),who chained liim to awheel which revolvesperpetually in the air. Jason. Son of^son, king of lolcusin Thessaly. Pelias,uncle of Jason, tookthe kingdom from hisfather, and attemptedto kill Jason. Hisfriends… … Medea and ber children. (Museo Borbonico.) 462 ANCIENT MYTHS Pelias slew his father. Medea, the wife of Jason, in order to re-veno-e this murder, persuaded the daughters of PeUas to cut liim upand boil him, to make him young again. He died thus, and hisson Acastus drove Jason and Medea out of…
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