Picture No | 10082035 |
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Description | Erichthonius |
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The daughters of Cecrops are told to guard a box but not to open it ; of course they do, and out pops the snake-child Ericthonius, scaring them so they jump off the Acropolis
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Source | engraving by I Briot in Renouard's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, circa 1610, page 55 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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