A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 439
ngwith her nymphs, she changedhim to a stag, and he was tornto pieces by his fifty dogs onMount Citliasron. Admetus. King of Pher«in Thessaly. He asked Peliasfor his daughter Alcestis, whomade a condition that heshould come in a chariotdrawn by lions and boars.Apollo assisted him to dothis. Apollo… … Actaeon Adonis. (British Museum.) Son of Cinyras by his daughter Smyrna or INlyrrha. He was very beautiful, and be-loved by Venus (Aphrodite).He was wounded in the chaseby a boar so that he died.The anemone sprung from hisblood. Venus so mourned hisdeath that the gods of thelower world allowed him…
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