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Title
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Polidoro y Polimnestor
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Description
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This engraving illustrates multiple events. In the background, Polymestor, the King of Phrygia, is illustrated atop a tower, throwing someone off the edge. The person he is throwing off the edge is Polydorus, the son of King Priam of Troy. King Priam had sent Polydorus to live with Polymestor during the Trojan War to avoid being killed. King Priam’s mistake was to send treasure and wealth along with Polydorus. The King of Phrygia was greedy and killed his foster son in order to take the wealth that King Priam had sent with him. The foreground of the engraving illustrates King Agamemnon and his soldiers on a beach in Thrace. There is a ghost that is emerging from the ground in front of Agamemnon. The ghost is that of Achilles, who has his sword in hand, ready to attack Agamemnon for his injustice of not offering him a sacrifice after he died. King Agamemnon then takes Polyxena, a daughter of King Priam of Troy, as a sacrifice to Achilles. She is depicted on the right-hand side of the engraving being detained by Greek soldiers.
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Image Creator
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Virgil Solis (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:11859
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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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Subject
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Agamemnon
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Sacrifice
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Roman Mythology
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Greek Mythology
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The Trojan War
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Achilles
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