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Perseus and Andromeda from the House of the Dioscuri, Pompeii | Naples National Archaeological Museum (IMG_1780.jpg)

Perseus and Andromeda from the House of the Dioscuri, Pompeii

In the land of the Ethiopians Perseus has killed the monster to whom Andromeda was doomed in expiation of the hurbis of her mother Cassiopea, who had dared to claim to be more beautiful than the Nereids. The girl, freed from the chains which bound her, steps down from the rock cliff, supported by the hero, portrayed in a statuary pose with his sickle and the head of Medusa.
Now it is in the Naples National Archaeological Museum
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