Von Hyppone · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Von Hyppone
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: Boccaccio explains that a Greek woman named Hippo had been captured by enemies, and when she heard them speaking of defiling her chastity, she decided that an early death was far better than having her honour destroyed. This engraving depicts Hippo on a boat surrounded by the men who had captured her. Hippo is illustrated at the front of the boat with her body plunging into the water. She drowned and successfully saved her honour. Her name is engraved at the bottom left corner of the engraving.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:18040
Language: ger
Source Name: Hyenach volget der kurcz syn von ettlichen frauen von denen johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat und doctor heinricus stainhöwel geteütschet [Following the short stories of several women of which Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in Latin, and doctor Heinrich Steinhöwel translated]
Parent Collection: 1473 Augsburg; 1473 Augsburg
Image: mta_18040_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Chastity; Honour; Important Women; Famous Women; Hippo