(photo on external web page)

	Iconography
	GODS & MYTHS
	Phrixus and Helle
	→ Ino gives the farmers roasted seed that will not grow so that there will be famine and her stepchildren Phrixus and Helle will be sacrificed
	→ Phrixus and Helle escape on a ram, Helle falls into the sea
	→ Nephele sends a ram to rescue Phrixus and Helle from being sacrificed
	→ Athamas advises his children Phrixus and Helle to escape from their stepmother Ino
	→ Ino demands the sacrifice of Phrixus to stop the famine
	LITERATURE
	Ancient
	→ Ovid → Metamorphoses → Cycles → Lyon 1532 → Part 1 (Books I-V)

	Further details
	The illustration already appears in previous editions of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Venice 1497, Milan 1510 and Lyon 1527.
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	Anonymous
	DATE
	1532
	LOCATION
	n/a
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) → Le Grand Olympe des histoires poëtiques du prince de poësie Ovide Naso en sa métamorphose, Lyon (Romain Morin) (USTC 49832), 1532, fol. 63v

	Acknowledgements
	Record created with the generous support of the Kress Foundation. Images on external web-page, kindly provided by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Réserve des livres rares (RESP-YC-1627) - Gallica, public domain

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