Yhphile regina Leumi · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Yhphile regina Leumi
Subject: King Thaos; Filial Devotion; Important Women; Famous Women; Hypsipyle
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Aegean Sea; Ancient Greece; Lemnos
Description: Hypsipyle and her father King Thaos of Lemnos are depicted on the right side of the engraving. Hypsipyle is depicted speaking with her father as she tells him that the women of Lemnos are planning to turn on all the men of the city and kill them. Boccaccio explains that Hypsipyle warns her father of the crime so that she can help him escape. There is a woman on the left side of the engraving with a sword in her left hand and a man’s head in her right as she carries out the plan to kill the men of the city. Later in life, Hypsipyle has a ward named Archemorus. He is depicted in the background of the engraving, lying on the ground with a snake biting into his chest. This kills the child, and Hypsipyle is illustrated with her hands in the air as she grieves for him.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:18137
Language: lat
Source Name: Iohannis Bocacij in librum de claris mulieribus
Parent Collection: 1487 Leuven; 1487 Leuven
Image: mta_18137_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: King Thaos; Filial Devotion; Important Women; Famous Women; Hypsipyle