<head>The Capture of Corinth</head>Polybius, appealing to our sentiments of pity in his account of the capture of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Corinth&groupId=493&placeId=928">Corinth</a>, mentions among other things the contempt of the soldiers for works of art and votive offerings.
He says he was present himself and saw pictures thrown on the ground with the soldiers playing draughts on them.
Among them he names the picture of Dionysus by Aristeides which some say gave origin to the phrase, "Nothing like Dionysus," and the Heracles tortured by the tunic of <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Deianeira&groupId=532&placeId=1003">Deianeira</a>.
Walbank Commentary