A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 483
e chose with the loser. Apollo played the cithara, and theMuses decided in his favor. Apollo bound Marsyas to a tree andHayed 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.) Althsea. He was in the expedition of the Argonauts, and was after-wards leader of his companions.He slew the Calydonian boar.He gave tlae hide to AtalantaAvhom he loved, but the sonsof Thestius, brothers of Althaea,took it away from her. Me-leager slew them in…
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