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Apollonius Rhodius, Argo. 1.1207ff.

J.W. Waterhouse, "Hylas and the Nymphs," 1896, Manchester City Art Galleries

A painting of a man reaching into a pond, surrounded by several bare-breasted women and lily pads

The young Hylas is lured to his fate by seven water-nymphs. The artist brilliantly combines English Victorian ideals of female beauty and landscape (the latter in colors of great beauty) with psychological insight that anticipates Freud." ML 8th edition, color plate 19.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.