A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 471
o thehorses. Eating the flesh oftheir master tamed .hem.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 Olympus. (9.) Seizure ofthe girdle of Hippolyte. This queen of the Amazons had a… … Hercules and horses of Diomedes. (MuseoBorbonico.) ILLUSTRATED IX ART. 45£ But Hera excited all the Ainazones against him. A quarrel ensued,in which Hercules killed EQppolyte, and seized her girdle. On hisreturn he stopped at Troas and rescued Hesione from the monstersent by Xeptune (Poseidon). Her…
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