Picture No | 10082175 |
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Description | Erysichthon Punished |
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Despising the gods, he chops down a sacred oak : Demeter punishes him with Famine, and in desperation he is reduced to eating his own flesh till there's nothing left of him
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Source | engraving by I Matheus in Renouard's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, circa 1610, page 237 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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