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Title
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[The Deification of Romulus]
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Description
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The god Mars is depicted on the right-hand side of this engraving, holding his helmet in his left hand and a spear in his right. He is looking up towards his father, Jupiter, in a pleading manner. We know this is Jupiter as he is holding thunder bolts in his right hand. Mars is pleading to his father to allow his son, Romulus, to become a god. Jupiter grants this request, and Mars brings Romulus up into the sky in his chariot as they fly over Rome, as illustrated in the bottom left-hand corner of the engraving. Ovid explains that as Mars brings Romulus up into the sky, Romulus’ mortality dissolves while traveling through the atmosphere.
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Image Creator
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Virgil Solis (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:11896
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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_11896_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Deification
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Gods
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Roman Mythology
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Mars
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Romulus