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![[picture: The Book Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/tn/000-cover-q67-356x500.jpg "[picture: The Book Cover]")
Images from Die schönsten Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (the most beautiful legends of classical antiquity) by Gustav Schwab, 1888.
At least part of this book seems to be online at www.sagen.at. If you don’t speak read German, you can enter the URL into the Google search bar and get a machine translation of the pages.
Title: Sagen des Klassischen Altertums
Published by: J. M. Gebhardt's Berlag
City: Leipzig
Date: 1882
Total items: 9
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Apollo beschuekt die Leiche Hektors]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/wm/big/362-Apollo-beschuekt-die-Leiche-Hektors-q75-321x200.jpg "[picture: Apollo beschuekt die Leiche Hektors]")
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 his chariot and dragged him behind it around the walls of Troy. Even after he buried Patroclus and sacrificed many, many animals to him, he still dragged [...]Characters of Greek Mythology, established by Tonya James] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Crumbling elegance: floriated tailpiece with criblé background]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/wm/big/101-tailpiece-q75-320x200.jpg "[picture: Crumbling elegance: floriated tailpiece with criblé background]")
Crumbling elegance: floriated tailpiece with criblé background
This typographic decoration was printed as a tail-piece at the end of a chapter. The stippled white dots on a black background are called a criblé effect; this style was popular in the sixteenth century, and it’s possible that the wood-engraving for this ornament was old, although more likely it’s a nineteenth-century German copy. It has vine leaves and a [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: The Book Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/wm/big/000-cover-q67-142x200.jpg "[picture: The Book Cover]")
The cover of the book is red and black with gold foil. [$]
![[picture: Herkules in Kampfe gegen die lernäische Schlange.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/wm/big/116-Herkules-im-Kampfe-gegen-die-lernaeische-Schlange-q75-123x200.jpg "[picture: Herkules in Kampfe gegen die lernäische Schlange.]")
Herkules in Kampfe gegen die lernäische Schlange.
The mighty hero Herakles (Hercules) is about to slay the Hydra. He appears to be barefoot and naked, but there is a lion-skin cloak on his back part of which conceals [...] [more...] [$]
Images from Die schönsten Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (the most beautiful legends of classical antiquity) by Gustav Schwab, 1888.
At least part of this book seems to be online at www.sagen.at. If you don’t speak read German, you can enter the URL into the Google search bar and get a machine translation of the pages.
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![[picture: Odysseus toetet die Freier]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/wm/big/568-Odysseus-toetet-die-Freier-q75-325x200.jpg "[picture: Odysseus toetet die Freier]")
