Cy sensuit histoire de marpesie et lampedon seurs et ensemble royne de amazones · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de marpesie et lampedon seurs et ensemble royne de amazones
Subject: Marpesia; Martesia; Lampedo; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Revenge; War; Amazons
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Thermodon; Themiscyra; Black Sea
Description: This illuminated image depicts Marpesia (also known as Martesia) and Lampedo, sister queens of the Amazons. They are wearing crowns to demonstrate their royal status. One sister is on the left side of the image and the other is on the right side. There are armed amazon women on the right side of the image in the background. The Amazon women are known to have lived their lives dedicated to war and military pursuits. Boccaccio explains that after all the Amazon women were all widowed, they took up arms to avenge their husbands, and continued to thrive off battle. Marpesia and Lampedo were elected by their fellow Amazons to become queens.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19823
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19823_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Marpesia; Martesia; Lampedo; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Revenge; War; Amazons