The centaur Chiron teaching Achilles to play

The centaur Chiron teaching Achilles to play the Cetera or lyre.. The centaur Chiron, wearing an animal skin and a wreath of flowers (Centaurus-), teaching the boy Achilles to play the Cetera or lyre. Below are two vignettes of ministers of Bacchus, one with a torch and one with a ribbon and tyrse. Discovered in Resina in 1739. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own Antichita di Ercolano (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789

1739 1789 Achilles Antichità Antiquities Bacchus Centaur Centaurus Chiron Discovered Ercolano Herculaneum Lyre Piroli Resina Tommaso Vignettes

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