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Title
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Orfeo muerto por las borrachas mujeres
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Description
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This engraving illustrates the horrific death of Orpheus. Orpheus is illustrated sitting by a tree on the left-hand side of the engraving, playing his lyre whilst surrounded by the animals who listen to him. Orpheus is being approached by the Maenads, a frenzied group of women who worship the god Bacchus. They first attack the animals that surround Orpheus and tear them to pieces. Then they attacked Orpheus by throwing stones and spears at him until he bled. Just like the animals, the Maenads end up tearing Orpheus to pieces.
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Image Creator
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Virgil Solis (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:11536
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Source Name
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Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española, repartidas en quinze libros, con las Allegorias al fin dellos, y sus figuras, para prouecho de los Artifices [The Transformations of Ovid in the Spanish language, distributed in fifteen books, with the allegories at the end of them and their figures, for the benefit of the creators]
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Image
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mta_11536_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Greek Mythology
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Maenads
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Orpheus
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Roman Mythology