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Title
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Lychas wirdt ins wasser gestürßt
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Description
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When Hercules had shot the centaur Nessus with a poisoned arrow, Nessus gave his blood-stained shirt to Hercules’ wife, Deianira. Nessus told Deianira that the shirt would act as an aphrodisiac if Hercules were to ever become unfaithful to her. The time came when Deianira was questioning Hercules’ fidelity to her, so she gifted him the shirt of Nessus. The shirt, however, was not an aphrodisiac. The shirt burst into flames when Hercules put the shirt on, and there was nothing he could do to stop it. In the background of the engraving, Hercules is illustrated throwing a man named Lichas into the water out of anger and pain he was feeling. Hercules decided to accept his fate and he made himself a funeral pyre. He is illustrated in the forefront of the engraving laying on the pyre accepting his death.
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Image Creator
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Virgil Solis (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:22878
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Source Name
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P. Ouidij Nasonis, deß Sinnreichen und hochverstendigen Poeten, Metamorphoses oder Verwandlung, mit schönen figuren gezieret, auch kurzen Argumenten und außlegungen erkläret, und in Teutsche Reymen gebracht, durch Johann Spreng von Augspurg [Publius Ovidius Naso, the Ingenious and Highly Understandable Poet, Metamorphoses or Transformations, Adorned with Beautiful Images, and also descriptions of Short Arguments and Explanations, Brought into German Rhymes by Johann Spreng of Augsburg]
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Image
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Subject
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Nessus
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Lichas
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Deianira
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Gods
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Goddesses
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Roman Mythology
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Greek Mythology
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