Mele, a plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte

Mele, a plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenure, Paris, 1615. Engraving circa 1615, by Leonard Gaultier. Gaultier, or Galter, was a French engraver, born at Mainz about 1561, and died in Paris in 1641. Les images ou tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates sophistes grecs, et Les statues de Callistrate by Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century Philostratus, the Lemnian, 3rd cent Callistratus, active 3rd century/4th century. The river Meles (more appropriately described as Meles Brook') is a stream charged with history and famous in literature, especially by virtue of being associated in a common and consistent tradition with Homer's birth and works, and which flowed by the ancient city of Smyrna, and a namesake of which flows through the present-day metropolitan centre of ?zmir

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