Iconography

LITERATURE

Ancient / Statius / Thebaid / Cycles / Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS 76 (Northern Italy, c1380-1390)
Ancient / Statius / Thebaid / Book XII: Creon forbids the burial of the Argives, their widows ask Theseus for help who kills Creon / vv. 141-166: Ornytus tells the mourning Argive widows who arrived to bury their husbands that Creon had set guards to keep them unburied
Ancient / Statius / Thebaid / Book XII: Creon forbids the burial of the Argives, their widows ask Theseus for help who kills Creon / vv. 362-408: Antigone, who likewise tries to bury Polyneices, meets Argia on the battle-field
Ancient / Statius / Thebaid / Book XII: Creon forbids the burial of the Argives, their widows ask Theseus for help who kills Creon / vv. 424-448: Polyneices is placed on the only still smoking funeral pyre, on which Eteocles lies, their mutual hatred makes the flames divide

Further details

Artist or creator

Altichiero (born 1330, died before 1393) (attributed)

Date

1380 (before) - 1390

Location

Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, 76

Book, text or document (source of image)

Statius (Publius Papinius Statius). Thebaid.

Notes on photograph

Collection

Hamburg stamp (Bibliothek Warburg)

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