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Title
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Von Medea der künigin colchurum
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Description
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Jason of Thessaly and Medea of Colchis are illustrated riding on a horse together as they flee from Medea’s father, King Aeetes. Boccaccio explains that Medea betrayed her father by helping Jason on his task to find the Golden Fleece. Jason is seated at the front of the horse and Medea is riding behind him. We know that this is Jason and Medea as their names are engraved beside their heads in order to identify them. Medea is depicted holding a severed head in her right hand, which is the head of her brother, Aegialeus (his name is also engraved beside his head). Medea had dismembered her own brother and scattered his limbs around the road behind her and Jason in order to distract her father from pursuing them. King Aeetes is illustrated on the left-hand side of the engraving as he is picking up his son’s limbs.
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Image Creator
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Anonymous (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:17971
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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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Medea
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Jason
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Important Women
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Golden Fleece
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Famous Women
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