Transformation into Snakes by Gustave Doré.
Engraving for Dante’s Inferno published between 1861-1868.
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Tracks
Gustave Dore; The Harpies in their nests and the bloodthirsty Erinyes. Both are illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy.
The Furies; Megaera, Tisiphone and Alecto.
In Greek mythology the Erinyes; “the avengers” —sometimes referred to as “infernal goddesses” were female chthonic deities of vengeance.They correspond to the Furies or Dirae in Roman mythology.
When the Titan Cronus castrated his father Uranus and threw his genitalia into the sea, the Erinyes emerged from the drops of blood, while Aphrodite was born from the crests of seafoam.
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Andromeda by Gustave Dore
Satan by Gustave Doré in Paradise Lost.
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But the other proved
A goshawk able to rend well his foe;
And in the boiling lake both fell.Gustave Doré, from Dante’s Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, New York, circa 1866.
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Arachne - Gustave Dore
Ridiculously gorgeous, painstakingly detailed engraving by Gustave Dore
