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GODS AND MYTHS

Athamas and Ino / Athamas kills his son Learchus
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The Trojan Horse / Laocoön killed by snakes / Adaptations / Miscellaneous

LITERATURE

Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Cycles / Paris 1539 (Denys Janot) / Vol. 1
Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Book IV

Further details

The woodcut appears to be depicting Laocoon attacked by the snakes and not Athamas killing his son.

Artist or creator

anonymous

Date

1539

Location

.., Blank

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso). Le Grand Olympe des hystoires poetiques du prince de poesie Ovide Naso en sa Métamorphose (translator anonymous), vol. 1. Paris (Denys Janot). 1539. Folio: 67v.

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Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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