A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 484
er. Apollo played the cithara, and theMuses decided in his favor. Apollo bound ^Marsyas to a tree and5.ayed him alive. His blood formed the River Marsyas, and Apollobuno- liis skin in the cave from which that stream flows. The statuesof Marsyas were erected as a warning against presumption. Thai,in… … Mekager. (Pompeii, Painting.) Altha3a. He was in the expedition of the Argonauts, and was after-wards leader ofliis companions.He slew the Calvdonian boar.He o;ave the hide to Atalantawhom he loved, but the sonsof Thestius, brothers of Althaea,took it away from her. Me-leasrer slew them in…
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