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Odysseus und Polyphem

Odysseus and Polyphem

In English I think this is Oedipus and Polypheme; Polypheme was a Cyclops, whome Odysseus blinded after getting him drunk.

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Apollo beschuekt die Leiche Hektors

Hector tried to tire [Achilles] by running around the walls of Troy with Achilles in hot pursuit. He caught him on the third lap around and killed him. He then took his armor, tied the corpse behind h [...]

Keywords: bare feet, heroes, nudity, chariots, people, horses, animals

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Perseus und Andromeda.

A damsel in distress if ever the was one! The woman (Andromeda) is chained at wrist and ankle to a rock in the sea, and a viscious sea-monster is about to swaller her up. But look! The helmeted and sa [...]

Keywords: dragons, monsters, chains, bare feet, gods, heroes, swords, water, waves, mythology

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Herkules in Kampfe gegen die lernäische Schlange.

The mighty hero Herakles (Hercules) is about to slay the Hydra. He appears to be barefoot and naked, but there is a lion-skin cloak on his back part of which conceals his genitals. He doesn’t seem to [...]

Keywords: mythology, nudity, bare feet, heroes, monsters

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Achilles und die Gesandten der Griechen

Achilles and the envoys of the Greeks engraved by M. Laemmel (?) after Jean August Dominique Ingres.

Keywords: musical instruments, bare feet, nudity, weapons, people, heroes

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Odysseus toetet die Freier

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