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Title
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Polidoro hallado muerto por Hecuba su madre
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Description
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This engraving illustrates Hecuba, the wife of King Priam of Troy, mourning over the loss of her children who had been killed as a result of the Trojan War. She is illustrated standing above her daughter Polyxena’s body, with other Trojan women by her side. While lamenting about Polyxena’s death, a body washed up on the shore. The body is her son, Polydorus, who had been murdered by King Polymestor.
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Image Creator
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Virgil Solis (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:11862
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Source Name
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Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española, repartidas en quinze libros, con las Allegorias al fin dellos, y sus figuras, para prouecho de los Artifices [The Transformations of Ovid in the Spanish language, distributed in fifteen books, with the allegories at the end of them and their figures, for the benefit of the creators]
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Image
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mta_11862_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Polyxena
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Polydorus
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Roman Mythology
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Greek Mythology
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The Trojan War
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Hecuba