La muerte de Polimestor · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La muerte de Polimestor
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Phrygia; Ancient Greece; Thrace
Description: This engraving depicts Hecuba, the wife of King Priam of Troy, murdering King Polymestor. Hecuba is depicted sitting on top of Polymestor gouging his eyes out. His right eye has already been gouged in the image while Hecuba mutilates the other. Hecuba is surrounded by fellow Trojan women who have been taken captive by the Greeks. They are illustrated with large sticks as they bludgeon the king to death. Hecuba murders King Polymestor because he murdered her son, Polydorus. After killing the king, Hecuba is transformed into a hound. The transformed Hecuba is illustrated to the right of the group of the Trojan women.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11863
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_11863_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; The Trojan War; Murder; Hecuba; Polymestor