Death of Meleager. At left, King Oeneus and Meleagers sisters mourn him on his deathbed near his shield with the face of a Gorgon. Center, Meleager with chlamys kills Plexippus for the boar skin and fights Toxeus, sons of King Thestius of Pleuron. At right, Meleagers mother Althaea, agitated by one of the Furies, holds a burning branch in her hand. From a bas-relief in the Capotoline Museum. Morte di Meleagro. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Bennardoni from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1826.

Death of Meleager. At left, King Oeneus and Meleagers sisters mourn him on his deathbed near his shield with the face of a Gorgon. Center, Meleager with chlamys kills Plexippus for the boar skin and fights Toxeus, sons of King Thestius of Pleuron. At right, Meleagers mother Althaea, agitated by one of the Furies, holds a burning branch in her hand. From a bas-relief in the Capotoline Museum. Morte di Meleagro. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Bennardoni from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1826.

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