Cy apres sensuit de ypone feme grec · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de ypone feme grec
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Chastity; Honour; Hippo
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: A Greek woman named Hippo is depicted on the ship in the centre of the image as she plunges herself headfirst into the ocean. Hippo had been captured by enemies, and when she heard the men discussing a plan to defile her chastity, she decided that an early death was far better than having her honour destroyed. She drowned and successfully saved her honour.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19983
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence; 1401 Florence
Image: mta_19983_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Chastity; Honour; Hippo