A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 485
a tree andflayed 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 presumption. Thaiin the Roman forum was often spoken of by the poets. Medea. (See Argonautas, Jason.) Medusa.… … Meleager. (Pompeii, Painting.) He slew the Calydonian boar.He gave the hide to Atalantawhom he loved, but the sonsof Thestius, brothers of Althaea,took it away from her. Me-leao-er slew them in reveno-e.Althaja had been told by thefates when Meleager wasseven days old, that he woulddie when the…
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