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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: 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...] [$]
![[picture: Achilles und die Gesandten der Griechen]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/wm/big/298-Achilles-und-die-Gesandten-der-Griechen-q75-316x200.jpg "[picture: Achilles und die Gesandten der Griechen]")
Achilles und die Gesandten der Griechen
Achilles and the envoys of the Greeks engraved by M. Laemmel (?) after Jean August Dominique Ingres. [$]
![[picture: Perseus und Andromeda.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/wm/big/001-frontispiece-Perseus-and-Andromeda-q75-123x200.jpg "[picture: Perseus und Andromeda.]")
![[picture: Odysseus und Polyphem]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/SchwabSagen/wm/big/504-Odysseus-und-Polyphem-q75-324x200.jpg "[picture: Odysseus und Polyphem]")
![[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. [$]
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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