spanishbaroqueart: Jusepe de Ribera Tityus (1632) Museo del Prado, Madrid “I saw Tityus too, s
spanishbaroqueart:Jusepe de RiberaTityus (1632)Museo del Prado, Madrid“I saw Tityus too,son of the mighty Goddess Earth—sprawling thereon the ground, spread over nine acres—two vultureshunched on either side of him, digging into his liver,beaking deep in the blood-sac, and he with his frantic handscould never beat them off, for he had once dragged offthe famous consort of Zeus in all her glory,Leto, threading her way toward Pytho’s ridgeover the lovely dancing-rings of Panopeus”.- Homer’s Odyssey xi.576-81 (Robert Fagles’ translation). -- source link
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