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  • Phaethon

    Phaethon

    Phaethon Gustave Moreau, 1878, Musée du Louvre, Paris Praise for Tales from Ovid: ‘A breathtaking book…To compare his versions with the Latin is to be awestruck again and again by the range and ingenuity of his poetic intelligence…He rescues the old gods and goddesses from the classical dictionaries and gives them back their terror. There…