The King of Thrace who raped his sister-in-law, cut out her tongue, and imprisoned her in a remote cabin. Her revenge is brutal and unforgiving.
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Painter to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, she was a friend of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. But the Royal Academy refused her, because she was a woman.
The satyr Marsyas became an outstanding player of the aulos, and played in a contest against the god Apollo. He can’t win, and ends up being flayed alive.
The origin of Helen, perhaps, ready to be served to Mercury and Jupiter, caged in Rome’s Capitol, or cared for young girls.
Goddess Latona gives birth to twins Apollo and Diana, but local peasants refuse to let her drink from their lake, so they’re turned into frogs.
Charon ferrying the dead to the Underworld, and rarely back again, Psyche in her quest, the centaur Nessus, and lots of sheep and cattle.
The consequences of pride, when all 14 of Niobe’s children are slaughtered by Apollo and Diane, but she’s unrepentant to the last.
First wife of Jason of the Golden Fleece, abandoned when he went off on his quest and married Medea. He came to a sticky end, though.
First wife of Paris, Prince of Troy, abandoned so he could seduce Helen. When Paris needed her to heal him, she refused then was filled with remorse.
In their heyday, worked elaborately in gold leaf, but lost with the realism of the Renaissance. Revived by the Pre-Raphaelites, and rarely used for secular figures.
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