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The museums and ruins of Rome (1912)

Amelung, Walther, 1865-1927, Holtzinger, Heinrich, 1856-, Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · London, Duckworth & Co · leaf 170

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LATERAN 144 Eurydice lays her hand on the shoulder of Orpheus and he tenderly turns round, but Hermes is already gently taking the wife’s hand to lead her back to the world of … off Perse- Fig. 83. — Relief of Orpheus, Hermes, and Eurydice (Naples). • phone, and were pun- ished by being bound with invisible chains to the rocks of the nether world. When Heracles de- scended thither he succeeded in begging off Theseus, but Pirithous had to remain. The moment before the last…

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