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Metamorphoses

Changing Paintings: 61 Sacrifice of Polyxena

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Achilles’ ghost demands the sacrifice of Hecuba’s daughter in appeasement. Hecuba then blinds Polymestor for killing her son. Finally Aurora laments the death of her son Memnon.

March 10, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 60 The sack of Troy

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Alax and Ulysses vie for the arms and armour of the dead Achilles. The Greeks enter Troy and start its destruction, killing King Priam and the infant Astyanax.

March 3, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 59 The death of Achilles

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Neptune hates Achilles, so gets Apollo to help Paris mortally wound Achilles with an arrow in the tendon of his ankle. And how that came to be his vulnerable point.

February 24, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 58 A wedding ruined by centaurs

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The start of fighting in the Trojan War, how the prettiest girl in Thessaly became its toughest warrior, and the wedding feast that became all-out war.

February 17, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 57 The sacrifice of Iphigenia

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The Greek fleet is stuck in the port of Aulis due to strong winds and heavy seas. A seer tells Agamemnon the only solution is to sacrifice his daughter to Diana.

February 10, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 56 The hawk, kingfishers and a diver

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How Daedalion was turned into a hawk, a wolf was turned into marble, King Ceyx and his wife became kingfishers, and Aesacus was turned into a diver.

February 3, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 55 The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis

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Laomedon refuses to pay the gods for helping built the walls of the first city of Troy. The Peleus marries Thetis, with a feast of the gods that sets up the Judgement of Paris.

January 27, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 54 How Midas got his touch and his ears

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Bacchus granted him the boon that everything he touched turned to gold. When that proved disastrous, his power was washed away, but he then offended Apollo and was given the ears of an ass.

January 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 53 The death of Orpheus

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The bard is torn limb from limb by frenzied bacchantes, leaving his head and lyre to float down the River Hebrus and over to the shores of Lesbos.

January 14, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 52 Death of Adonis

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The lover of Venus is gored in the groin by a wild boar, and dies in pools of blood to be transformed into red anemone flowers.

January 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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