The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 271
and Nua, isrepresented coming to offer his services to Hercules totransport across the river Evena, Dejanira, the daughterof iEneus, King of Etolia, of which Hercules avails him-self, to bear away the Princess. Her lover penetratesthe design of the ravisher, and lances at him a poisonedarrow from… … . ~ PROMETHEUS AND THE VULTURE. GUIDO CAGNACCI. Prometheus is one of the personages of whom my-thology has related the most surprising adventures;—which have almost all in allegorical sense. His reputedfather was Japetus, and his mother, Asia, Climene, orThemis. He formed a man of clay; and to…
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