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Images from Die schönsten Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (the most beautiful legends of classical antiquity) by Gustav Schwab, 1888.

At least part of this book seems to be online at www.sagen.at. If you don’t speak read German, you can enter the URL into the Google search bar and get a machine translation of the pages.

Title: Sagen des Klassischen Altertums

Author: Schwab, Gustav

Published by: J. M. Gebhardt's Berlag

City: Leipzig

Date: 1882

Total items: 10

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

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Perseus und Andromeda.

A damsel in distress if ever the was one! The woman (Andromeda) is chained at wrist and ankle to a rock in the sea, and a viscious sea-monster is about to swaller her up. But look! The helmeted and sandal-footed Perseus is [...] [more...] [$]

The Book Cover

The cover of the book is red and black with gold foil. [$]

Odysseus und Polyphem

Odysseus and Polyphem [more...] [$]

Achilles und die Gesandten der Griechen

Achilles and the envoys of the Greeks engraved by M. Laemmel (?) after Jean August Dominique Ingres. [$]

Crumbling elegance: floriated tailpiece with criblé background

This typographic decoration was printed as a tail-piece at the end of a chapter. The stippled white dots on a black background are called a criblé [more...] [$]

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