Cy apres sensuit de theosene fille de herodice prince · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de theosene fille de herodice prince
Subject: Poris; King Philip; Important Women; Famous Women; Suicide; Theoxena
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Thessaly
Description: This illumination depicts Theoxena, her husband Poris, and her nephews and child killing themselves. They are illustrated on a ship as they had attempted to escape King Philip of Macedon by sea, however, their ship was being pulled back to shore by the winds. To avoid dying at the hands of King Philip, Theoxena had given them all a choice between stabbing themselves with knives or to drink poison. Theoxena is depicted holding a chalice full of poison while a child in front of her holds one as well. Theoxena and her husband decided to die as a couple and jump off the ship and drown together.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18495
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence
Image: mta_18495_OBJ.jpg