Deipnosophistae
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The Deipnosophistae is a work written c. 200 AD in Ancient Greek by Athenaeus of Naucratis. It is a long work of literary, historical, and antiquarian references set in Rome at a series of banquets he
Frontispiece to the 1657 edition of the Deipnosophists, edited by Isaac Casaubon, in Greek and Jacques Daléchamps' Latin translation
A 1535 edition
Gerana
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Gerana, sometimes also called Oenoe, is a queen of the Pygmy folk in Greek mythology, who incurred the wrath of the goddess Hera and was subsequently turned into a bird bearing her name, the crane. Th
A Pygmy fights a crane, Attic red-figure chous, ca. 430–420 BC, National Archaeological Museum of Spain.
The battle between the cranes and Pygmies depicted on the François vase, ca. 570-560 BC, National Archaeological Museum of Florence, Italy.
Pygmalion
Apollo and Daphne