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Picture No 10082208
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Description Orpheus and Bacchantes
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After the death of Eurydice, he goes off women, and they off him : when he meets a group of Maenads celebrating Dionysos, they tear him to pieces like wild animals
Source engraving by Michel Saulte in Renouard's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, circa 1610, page 303
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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