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GODS AND MYTHS

Athamas and Ino / Athamas kills his son Learchus
Athamas and Ino / Ino throws herself and Melicertes into the sea
Erysichthon / Erysichthon eats himself
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Priam killed by Neoptolemus / Priam killed in the temple of Apollo / Alone
Meleager / Myths / Death of Meleager / Althaea puts the log into the fire - without Meleager
Meleager / Myths / Death of Meleager / Suicide of Althaea

HISTORY

Ancient / Ninus / Ninus vanquishes Zoroaster

LITERATURE

Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Cycles / Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 263
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 470-966: Adam and Eve
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 1002-1008: The Flood
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 1009-1281: Nimrod
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 1506-1561: Zoroaster and Ninus
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 1751-1785: Erysichthon
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 2077-2107: Athamas and Ino
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 2885-3017: Sisera and Jael
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 4845-5037: Althaea and Meleager
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 5492-5502: Death of Hercules
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 5552-5678: Narcissus and Echo
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 5902-6041: Priam and the Story of Troy
Modern / Lydgate, John / Fall of Princes / Book 1 / vv. 6469-6489: Death of Samson

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Old Testament / Genesis / The Fall and Expulsion / The Serpent seduces Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:1-6) / Serpent with head and upper body of a woman
Old Testament / Genesis / The Fall and Expulsion / Expulsion from Eden / With an angel at the gate
Old Testament / Genesis / Noah / The Flood (Gen. 6:1-9:17) / The Flood (Gen. 7) / The Ark with drowning men and animals
Old Testament / Genesis / The Tower of Babel / Destruction of the Tower (non-biblical)
Old Testament / Judges / Deborah, Barak and Jael (Jud. 4) / Jael drives a nail through Sisera's head (Jud. 4:21) / Speculum humanae salvationis
Old Testament / Judges / Samson (Jud. 13-16) / Samson's slavery and death (Jud. 16:21-31) / Samson destroying the house and killing the Philistines (Jud. 16:29-30)

Further details

First row: Fall, Tower of Babel, Flood; Second row: perhaps Ninus defeating Zoroaster; Athamas and Ino; Erysichthon; Third row: Jael and Sisera, Althaea, Hercules on the pyre; Fourth row: Narcissus, Death of Samson, Death of Priam

Artist or creator

English

Date

15th century (middle)

Location

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 263

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Lydgate, John. Fall of Princes. Folio: 7r.

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Acknowledgements

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

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