[Hippo Throws Herself off a Ship to Protect her Chastity] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Hippo Throws Herself off a Ship to Protect her Chastity]
Subject: Chastity; Important Women; Hippo
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This image illustrates a greek woman named Hippo, throwing herself off of a ship. She is the only woman in the image, and the other figures on the ship are men. She is depicted going head first into the water. Boccaccio explains that Hippo had been captured by enemy sailors, and to prevent any of them violating her chastity, she throws herself off the ship.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:12002
Language: frm
Source Name: De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames [Of praise and virtue of the noble and clergy women]
Parent Collection: 1493 Paris; 1493 Paris
Image: mta_12002_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Chastity; Important Women; Hippo