[Aesculapius Appears in the Dream of a Roman Delegate] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Aesculapius Appears in the Dream of a Roman Delegate]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Greece; Epidaurus; Ancient Rome
Description: The god of healing, Aesculapius, is illustrated standing on the right-hand side of the engraving holding a long staff in his right hand with a snake coiled around it. Aesculapius is appearing in the dream of a Roman delegate, the man who is depicted sleeping in the bed. The Romans, as told by Ovid, sought out Aesculapius’ help as their city was being ravaged by the plague. Aesculapius appears in this man’s dream to inform him that he will help the city and accompany the men on the journey back to Rome in the form of a snake.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11899
Language: spa
Source Name: 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]
Parent Collection: Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española. Woodcut engravings by Virgil Solis (1595)
Image: mta_11899_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Gods; Aesculapius; Healing; Roman Mythology; Plague