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GODS AND MYTHS

Midas / Midas, Silenus and Bacchus / The food Midas touches turns to gold

LITERATURE

Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Cycles / Lyon 1532 / Part 3 (Books XI-XV)

SOCIAL LIFE

Eating and drinking / Banquet / Outdoors

Further details

The woodcut does not directly illustrate the episode of Midas turning everything he touches into gold. The same illustration was used for the episode of Lycaon serving the flesh of his own son to Jupiter, part 1 f. 11r, and Bacchus returning to Thebes, part 1 f.49r.

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: 4r.

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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