DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.5674#0089
(8a)
Plate 21.) Adrastus having promised Poly nice, to whom
he had given his Daughter in marriage to assist him against
his Brother , and reestablish him in his right to the King-
dom of Thebes, had summoned all the Princes of his
states to join their forces to his, and to form an expedi-
tion against Thebes. Among the Princes there was one
called Amphiaraus, who was very expert in soretelling fu-
turity , he knew, that all the Chiefs of the the confede-
rate army, except Adrastus, would perish in that expedi-
tion, he was therefore far from being desirous of engaging
in it himself , and tried to dissuade the others from it.
Eriphile his wife having received from Polynice a prefent
of a rich necklace determines him to enter into the views
of Adrastus, which she had the power of doing in con-
sequence of a convention between Adrastus and Amphia-
raus , that in all disputes, they might have, Eriphile should
be their Judge , and that they would never depart from
her decisson.
The two figures on the right hand in this plate are
Amphiaraus with his Prophetic robe and stick, and Eri-
phile who has just declared for the requisition of Adrastus.
The sigures on the inside of the Patera are Amphiaraus
and a Genius with a helmet indicating that Amphiaraus
deliberates upon the part he is to a6t, and decides rather to
go and die , than ast contrary to the convention subsisting
between him and Adrastus. The two figures on the lest,
are supposed to be Eriphile pursued by her son Alcmeon,
W ho had been instigated by his Father to revenge his caufe.
Plate 22. ) Hercules suffering extreme pain from the
Robe, which he had asked of Dejanira , and which she
had prepared with a charm, capable, as she thought, of
curing him of his passion for Jole , and of bringing him
back to her, sent Jolaus to Delphos to consult Apollo upon
his
Plate 21.) Adrastus having promised Poly nice, to whom
he had given his Daughter in marriage to assist him against
his Brother , and reestablish him in his right to the King-
dom of Thebes, had summoned all the Princes of his
states to join their forces to his, and to form an expedi-
tion against Thebes. Among the Princes there was one
called Amphiaraus, who was very expert in soretelling fu-
turity , he knew, that all the Chiefs of the the confede-
rate army, except Adrastus, would perish in that expedi-
tion, he was therefore far from being desirous of engaging
in it himself , and tried to dissuade the others from it.
Eriphile his wife having received from Polynice a prefent
of a rich necklace determines him to enter into the views
of Adrastus, which she had the power of doing in con-
sequence of a convention between Adrastus and Amphia-
raus , that in all disputes, they might have, Eriphile should
be their Judge , and that they would never depart from
her decisson.
The two figures on the right hand in this plate are
Amphiaraus with his Prophetic robe and stick, and Eri-
phile who has just declared for the requisition of Adrastus.
The sigures on the inside of the Patera are Amphiaraus
and a Genius with a helmet indicating that Amphiaraus
deliberates upon the part he is to a6t, and decides rather to
go and die , than ast contrary to the convention subsisting
between him and Adrastus. The two figures on the lest,
are supposed to be Eriphile pursued by her son Alcmeon,
W ho had been instigated by his Father to revenge his caufe.
Plate 22. ) Hercules suffering extreme pain from the
Robe, which he had asked of Dejanira , and which she
had prepared with a charm, capable, as she thought, of
curing him of his passion for Jole , and of bringing him
back to her, sent Jolaus to Delphos to consult Apollo upon
his