Cy apres sensuit de argie femme de Pollicine et fille du roy adraste · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de argie femme de Pollicine et fille du roy adraste
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Thebes
Description: Argia, the daughter of King Adrastus of Argos, is depicted on the left side of the image looking for the body of her husband, King Polynices of Thebes. Boccaccio explains that Polynices had fought in a war against his brother Eteocles and died on the battlefield. Argia snuck herself onto the battlefield after the war to see her husband’s body. She is accompanied by a servant who is holding a torch. Boccaccio believes her to be praiseworthy as it took courage to risk her life in order to find her husband on the battlefield.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18441
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_18441_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: King Adrastus; Polynices; Eteocles; Important Women; Famous Women; Greek Mythology; Argia