Scamander (river god in Greek mythology) 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs,

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Scamander (river god in Greek mythology) 1615. A plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenère, Paris, 1615. Engraving circa 1615, by Leonard Gaultier. Gaultier, or Galter, was a French engraver, born at Mainz about 1561, and died in Paris in 1641. Les images ou tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates sophistes grecs, et Les statues de Callistrate by Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century; Philostratus, the Lemnian, 3rd cent; Callistratus, active 3rd century/4th century. The Eikone?s are associated with the four sophists of the Philostratus family of Lemnos, who lived 2nd-3rd century A. D. According to Hesiod, Scamander was the son of Oceanus and Tethys. After the Greek hero Achilles insulted him. Scamander was also said to have attempted to kill Achilles three times, and the hero was only saved due to the intervention of Hera, Athena and Hephaestus.

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