Picture No | 10082238 |
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Description | Polyxena Sacrificed |
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Priam's daughter was loved by Achilles, though an enemy : after his death, Troy fallen, his ghost demands that she be sacrificed so that he may have her in death if not in life
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Source | engraving by I Briot in Renouard's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, circa 1610, page 372 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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