Théossena fait jeter à la mer les cadavres de ses neveux qu’elle a empoisonnés · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Théossena fait jeter à la mer les cadavres de ses neveux qu’elle a empoisonnés
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Thessalonica
Description: When Theoxena found out that the threat of the Romans was nearing, she knew she could not let her nephews die by their hand. She thought it would be noblest to die by their own hand, before they could be captured and killed. While on the ocean, a Roman boat approached, and she knew the time had come. She placed poison and daggers in front of her nephews, and told them to choose whichever way they wanted to die. In the image, the family is on the sea. Theoxena, wearing the blue gown, watches as her husband, with the pink hat, throws her nephews into the sea as they die. Behind Theoxena is the last live nephew, watching as his brothers are thrown into the sea.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20199
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20199_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Boats; Noble; Theoxena; Suicide; Poison