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Ovid Met.

Edward Burne-Jones, “The Rock of Doom,” 1884–1887, painting 6 in Perseus Cycle at Stuttgart Staatsgalerie

Perseus in armor approaches Andromeda, chained nude to a pillar by the sea, with a city in the background

Perseus arrives to find Andromeda chained to the rock. The next painting is “The Doom Fulfilled” in which Perseus slays the Cetus.

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.