Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Cephalus and Procris / Miscellaneous

LITERATURE

Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Cycles / Lyon 1532 / Part 2 (Books VI-X)
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VII: Aeneas lands in Latium, beginning of conflict with Turnus / vv. 493-499: By mistake, Ascanius shoots the tame stag belonging to Sylvia
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VII: Aeneas lands in Latium, beginning of conflict with Turnus / vv. 500-504: Sylvia laments about the tame stag wounded by Ascanius
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VII: Aeneas lands in Latium, beginning of conflict with Turnus / vv. 511-518: Alecto alarms Sylvia's friends with trumpet blasts

Further details

The woodcut was originally created to illustrate an edition of the Aeneid, and is re-used here to accompany the episode of Cephalus and Procris. It is also found in part 2, f. 49v.

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: 35v.

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