Cy sensuit histoire de yocaste qui su royne des thebans · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de yocaste qui su royne des thebans
Subject: Oedipus; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Prophecies; Jocasta
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Thebes
Description: This illumination depicts the story of Jocasta and Oedipus. Jocasta is depicted on the right side of the image stabbing herself in the abdomen, while her husband Oedipus is on the left side of the image looking horrified. Jocasta is stabbing herself because she found out that her husband, Oedipus, is her son. The two smaller figures in the centre of the image are Eteocles and Polynices, the sons of Jocasta and Oedipus. They kill each other in war, which is why they are depicted stabbing one another in this illustration.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19853
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19853_OBJ.jpg