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| Picture No | 10082172 |
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| Description | Althaea Kills Meleager |
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Meleager's life depends on a certain log not being burnt ; when he kills his brothers, his mother Althaea throws the log on the fire, he dies, his sorrowing sisters become birds
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| Source | engraving by I Matheus in Renouard's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, circa 1610, page 222 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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