Cy sensuit histoire de theosene de herodice prince fille · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de theosene de herodice prince fille
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Poris; King Philip; Suicide; Theoxena
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Thessaly
Description: This illumination depicts Theoxena sitting on a ship with her nephews and child as they kill themselves. They are illustrated on a ship as they had attempted to escape King Philip of Macedon by sea, however, their ship was being pulled back to shore by the winds. To avoid dying at the hands of King Philip, Theoxena had given them all a choice between stabbing themselves with knives or to drink poison. Theoxena is depicted holding a chalice full of poison and forcing the children to drink it.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20057
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_20057_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Poris; King Philip; Suicide; Theoxena