Cy sensuit histoire de argie femme de polinice et fille du roy adraste · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de argie femme de polinice et fille du roy adraste
Subject: Polynices; Important Women; Famous Women; Greek Legend; Argia
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Thebes
Description: Argia, the daughter of King Adrastus of Argos, is depicted in the centre of the image holding the dead body of her husband, King Polynices of Thebes. Boccaccio explains that Polynices had fought in a war against his brother Eteocles and died on the battlefield. Argia snuck herself onto the battlefield after the war to see her husband’s body. She is accompanied by three servants. Boccaccio believes her to be praiseworthy as it took courage to risk her life in order to find her husband on the dangerous battlefield.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19862
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19862_OBJ.jpg