When the centaur Nessus tries to abduct his wife, Hercules shoots him with a poisoned arrow. But Nessus gets his revenge when Hercules’ wife gives her husband a shirt impregnated with Nessus’ blood.
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His magnificent sacred Indian elephant, a polyptych painted over 5 years, an epic overview of Alexander the Great, and his phantasmagoric Jupiter and Semele in full detail.
Hercules killing the Lernean Hydra, then a series of paintings of Salome that led to the femme fatale and a change in a well-known story. Finally a remarkable painting of Moses before discovery.
Early career, including the Judgement of Paris, Hesiod and the Muses, Oedipus and the Sphinx, Jason, Orpheus, and Jupiter and Europa.
They tried to lure Odysseus and his crew to their deaths, and the same with Jason and his Argonauts. With the head of a beautiful woman and the legs of a bird, their singing was alluring to sailors.
How Lycurgus got the Spartans to keep his laws, the 300 at Thermopylae, a Spartan poet supporting warriors in the 2nd Messenian War, and the role of Sparta in the start of the war against Troy.
Lycaon transformed into a wolf, the origin of later werewolves, the she-wolf who fed Romulus and Remus, a shepherd defending his flock, the wolf of Agubbio, the fable of the wolf and the lamb, and others.
Summary and contents of the first 19 articles, covering the origin of the world, the great flood, fall of Phaëthon, rape of Europa, the fall of Thebes, and more.
Hercules wrestling with Achelous, Jacob wrestling with the Angel, the young Samson wrestling with a lion, and wrestlers from Courbet, Bazille and Friant.
From the way of the cross, ascending Calvary, to the Crucifixion, descent from the cross, pietà, and entombment.
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