[Fables from the Twelfth Book] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Fables from the Twelfth Book]
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Aeaea; Italy
Description: This image depicts multiple fables that appear throughout the twelfth book in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. On the very left side of the image, the magical Circe is depicted standing in front of a group of pigs. These pigs are the companions of Ulysses that she had just transformed. The centre of the image depicts the beautiful Scylla being transformed into a sea creature by Circe. Scylla has her arms in the air as a group of hounds emerge out of the lower half of her body and become a part of her. The right side of the image appears to be Circe speaking with the sea-God Glaucus. There are snakes all around the image as snakes would emerge from the ground when Circe used her magic.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25131
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1819)
Image: mta_25131_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Circe; Scylla; Ulysses; Glaucus; Mythology; Transformation