Argis femme de polinice fille du roy adrastus · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Argis femme de polinice fille du roy adrastus
Subject: Important Queens; Argia; Polynices; Important Women; Famous Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Thebes; Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of a woman named Argia, who was the wife of Polynices of Thebes. After Polynices was defeated in a battle against his brother, Eteocles, he was left unburied and left without a proper burial. Argia, mourning the loss of her husband, snuck herself onto the enemy's battlefield to find her husband’s body to cremate him. She risked her life doing so, and Boccaccio wrote on her as he believed this to be worthy of remembrance.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17147
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_17147_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Queens; Argia; Polynices; Important Women; Famous Women