Arethusa, Engraved illustration from The Temple

Arethusa, Engraved illustration from The Temple of the Muses, 1733. This book represented remarkable events of antiquity drawn and engraved by Bernard Picart (1673-1733). Arethusa. Engraving from Tableaux du temple des muses (1655) by Michel de Marolles (1600 - 1681), known as the abbe de Marolles a French churchman and translator. According to Pausanias, Alpheius was a passionate hunter and fell in love with the nymph Arethusa, but she fled from him to the island of Ortygia near Syracuse, and metamorphosed herself into a well, after which Alpheius became a river

1600 1655 1673-1733 1681 1733 Abbe According Arethusa Fled Herself Marolles Metamorphosed Metamorphosis Muses Nymph Ortygia Passionate Pausanias Picart Remarkable Represented Syracuse Tableaux Translator

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