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Title
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Llanto de Aurora por su hija
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Description
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This engraving depicts Memnon, the son of the goddess Aurora, being burned in a funeral pyre after being killed by Achilles. Aurora, grieved by the death of her warrior son, goes to Jupiter to ask him to grant her son some kind of honour. Aurora is illustrated in the background of the engraving, floating in the clouds speaking to Jupiter. While Memnon’s funeral pyre was blazing, a flock of birds emerged from the smoke. The birds split into two groups and begin fighting each other to the death, where they eventually fall into Memnon’s ashes. They are called the Memnonides. The birds are illustrated in the smoke above Memnon’s body. This event occurs every twelve years in honour of Memnon.
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Image Creator
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Virgil Solis (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:11864
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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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Subject
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Roman Mythology
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Greek Mythology
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The Trojan War
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Gods
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Goddesses
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