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Detail from "Acis et Galatee se derobant au regard de Polypheme" (Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus) c.1590 by Francois Perrier - Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

 

Subject from the "Metamorphoses" by Ovid. Galatea, the daughter of Nereus, was betrothed to the cyclops Polyphemus (later blinded by Odysseus). Polyphemus killed Acis.

 

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