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Title
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Von jocasta der künigin thebano zum
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Description
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Queen Jocasta of Thebes is depicted on the right side of the engraving rubbing the tears away from her eyes with her dress. She is crying because her husband exposed their child into the wilderness due to a prophecy which foretold the baby would grow up to kill his father and marry his mother. Her child, Oedipus, is depicted lying on the ground after being exposed. There is a person approaching the baby as he takes him in and raises him as his own. Oedipus’ name is engraved beside his arm. Oedipus ends up fulfilling the prophecy by killing his father later in life, and marrying his mother, Jocasta. When Jocasta and Oedipus find out they are mother and son, Oedipus gouges out his eyes and Jocasta kills herself. This scene is depicted on the left side of the engraving with Jocasta and Oedipus’ names engraved above their heads to identify them.
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Image Creator
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Anonymous (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:17977
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Source Name
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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]
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Image
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Subject
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Famous Women
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Incest
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Oedipus
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Jocasta
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Greek Mythology
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Important Women
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