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Medea
In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of Corinth, offers him his daughter, Glauce.
The play tells of Medea avenging her husband's betrayal by killing their children.
By Victor Mote
1809–1897
Musée des beaux-arts de Blois
Pallas Athena
Homer's epic works, Athena's most common epithet is Glaukopis, which usually is translated as, "bright-eyed" or "with gleaming eyes".
Another meaning of glaukopis is “owl-eyed”
Athena is also described with grey or blue eyes.
Jan Styka
1858 - 1925
Priestess of Bacchus
The cult of Dionysus is often regarded as a "cult of the souls"; his maenads feed the dead through blood-offerings, and he acts as a divine communicant between the living and the dead.
1894
by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Pietro Aretino was an Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics. He was one of the most influential writers of his time and an outspoken critic of the powerful.