Caption:
Anaxarete turned to stone. Temple of the muses. Plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenare, Paris, 1615. Engraving circa 1615, by Leonard Gaultier. In Greek mythology, Anaxarete was a Greek maiden who refused the advances of a shepherd named Iphis.