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title: TELEPHUS SUBSCURED BY A DOE

subject date: 2004-08-27

caption: MYTHOLOGY Hercules recognizes his accidental son Telephus, taken from his mother Auge and abandoned by his grandfather Aleus on Mount Parthenius, welcomed by the nymphs of Arcadia and suckled by a doe. In the scene a nymph sits on the throne, behind her a young satyr playing the syrinx, and behind the demigod a winged divinity (Victory or Nemesis, or...?), also observing the infant. Fresco from Herculaneum (NA), 1st century BC

category: HIS

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country: Italia

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Creation date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 53727

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continent: Europa

image century : I a.C.

image epoch: Antica Roma

licence: RM

subject century: XIII a.C.

subject epoch: Antica Grecia

technique: Affresco

id: 6663

file name: FSNgilardi_53727.jpg

keywords

TelephoneAncient RomeHerculaneumAncient GreeceArcadianymphsadoptionchildrenanimalsnursingmythologyHerculesHeraclesAncient GreeceClassical AntiquityhindAquilalionmale nudepaternitynymphsatyrwinged deity