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The Allen is sending Rubens's "The Finding of Erichthonius," painted around 1632-1633, based on a story from Ovid.
Loan gives Phillips Collection a chance to pair styles, periods and painters 2010
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Deafened by the pain of his loss, he did not hear the cries and shouts and gasps of the onlookers and his fellow victims; instead, over and over the shearing sound of the Chevy's assault screeched through his soul like the death-cry of Erichthonius.
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But Dardanus came to the coast of the mainland — from him Erichthonius and thereafter Tros were sprung, and Ilus, and Assaracus, and godlike Ganymede, — when he had left holy
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Erechtheus, and Erichthonius, and Erysichthon, and the names of the women in like manner.
Critias 2006
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Erichthonius, and Erysichthon, were preserved and adopted in later times, but the memory of their deeds has passed away; for there have since been many deluges, and the remnant who survived in the mountains were ignorant of the art of writing, and during many generations were wholly devoted to acquiring the means of life ...
Critias 2006
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According to the crow, Minerva hid the child Erichthonius in a chest and delivered it to three girls to watch over but warned them not to open it.
The Annotated "Uncle John's Band" Robert Hunter 1968
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The physical development of the country is expressed in the genealogy of a royal race, beginning with Cecrops and his wife Agraulia, continued in Cranaus and Amphictyon, and finally passing into Erichthonius, the son of Atthis, and foster son of Pandrosos.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various
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But Dardanus came to the coast of the mainland -- from him Erichthonius and thereafter Tros were sprung, and Ilus, and Assaracus, and godlike Ganymede, -- when he had left holy
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Dardanus, the first Trojan King, founded Dardania, which town Virgil and Euripides consider identical with Ilium, and that after him it was governed by his son Erichthonius, and then by his grandson Tros, by his great-grandson Ilus, and then by his son Laomedon, and by his grandson Priam.
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"But the truth is," says Servius, "that he is a deity associated with Diana, as Attis is associated with the Mother of the Gods, and Erichthonius with Minerva, and Adonis with Venus."
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