Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Aegeus / Aegeus hurls himself into the sea
Apollo / Worship / Temple of Apollo
Daedalus / Daedalus and Icarus / Daedalus flying
Daedalus / Daedalus and Icarus / The fall of Icarus
Daedalus / Daedalus and Icarus / After the fall
Historia Thebana / The story of Cadmus / The Delphian oracle instructs Cadmus to follow a heifer
Pasiphaë
Theseus / Myths / Theseus kills the Minotaur
Theseus / Myths / Theseus is thanked by the Athenians for killing the Minotaur

LITERATURE

Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Cycles / Lyon 1532 / Part 1 (Books I-V)
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 5-8: The Trojans land in Cumae

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Divination and prophecy / Sibyls / Individual / Cumaean

Further details

The woodcut was originally created to illustrate an edition of the Aeneid, and is re-used here to illustrate Cadmus's visit to the temple of Apollo in Delphi. It is also re-used to illustrate the weaving of Arachne, part 2, f.

Artist or creator

anonymous

Date

1532

Location

.., Blank

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

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. Folio: 38r.

Find out more

Web resources

Photo on external webpage

Rights and Permissions

This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License

Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

For comments or queries, please contact photographic.collect@sas.ac.uk
IIIF manifest for this object