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Ovid Met.4.640ff.
Apollodorus Bibl. 2.4.2

Anthony Van Dyck, 1599-1641, "Andromeda Chained to the Rock," 1637-38, oil on canvas, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, M. 85.80

The "rightness" of allowing Perseus to ride Pegasus is part and parcel of the Pegasus conundrum (see opposite side-bar).

Andromeda chained to a rock, nude save for blue drapery, awaiting rescue by Perseus from a sea monster.

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.