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Title
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Yris mensajera de Juno
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Description
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This engraving illustrates Alcyone, the wife of King Ceyx, kneeling at the temple of Juno praying for her husband’s return from sea. King Ceyx had traveled by sea to seek out the Oracle at Claros and ended up dying in a shipwreck due to a storm. Alcyone continuously prayed at the temple to Juno in the hopes that her husband would soon return. Juno is depicted at the altar with her sacred animal, the peacock, at her side. Juno decides to reveal to Alcyone that her husband is dead by sending Iris, the messenger of the gods, to the god of sleep to reveal Ceyx’s fate through a dream. Juno is depicted on a cloud in the background of the engraving giving these commands to Iris.
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Image Creator
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Virgil Solis (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:11846
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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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Shipwreck
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Greek Mythology
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Roman Mythology
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Gods
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Goddesses
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