Friday 27 July 2012

Atalanta in Calydon


In Swinburne's poem, as the gods leave the Earth at the break of day, Atalanta awakes and the woods around her are new and strange to her eyes, as she prepares to hunt the Wild Boar of Calydon.

Her dress is based on the Aubrey Beardsley illustration.

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