Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Muses / With other figures / Apollo / Apollo surrounded by the Muses (on Parnasssus or Helicon) / Adaptations
Saturn / Myths / Saturn and his children / Devouring a child (not being castrated)

LITERATURE

Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Cycles / London, British Library, Sloane MS 2452
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 1401-1414: Saturn devouring his children
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 1569-1610: Moses and Pharaoh
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 1632-1643: Flood in Thessalia
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 1644-1659: Plague in Athens in Cecrop's time (caused by the heat at Phaeton's Fall)
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 1786-1799: Tereus

Further details

at the front left Saturn eating his children, behind them the Egyptians in the Red Sea; in the centre a man being served a severed head (probably Tereus, Saxl suggested Erisychthon), at the right the Athenians dying because of the heat caused by Phaeton, the mountain may be Parnassus

Artist or creator

English

Date

1438 - 1450

Location

London, British Library, Sloane MS 2452

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Lydgate, John. Fall of Princes. Folio: 3v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Verzeichnis Astrologischer und Mythologischer illustrierter Handschriften des lateinischen Mittelalters, 3, 1, London 1953, p. 247f.

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Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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