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Picture No 10082214
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Description Thetis Taken by Surprise
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Though wed to Peleus, the naiad resists his embraces, turning herself into a tree etc : but one day he finds her sleeping, seizes the chance, makes her mother of Achilles
Source engraving by Michel Saulte in Renouard's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, circa 1610, page 312
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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