Hercules se tiende sobre la pira, y Filoctetes la prende fuego · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Hercules se tiende sobre la pira, y Filoctetes la prende fuego
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Phocis; Ancient Greece; Mount Oeta
Description: This image depicts the death of the demi-god Hercules. Hercules had been tricked into putting on a shirt that would poison him and cook him alive. Unable to withstand the pain, Hercules creates a funeral pyre for himself. He is depicted laying on the pyre in the image. He commands Philoctetes to light the pyre. Philoctetes is illustrated on the left side of the image as he lights the pyre and covers his eyes to protect himself from the flames. The gods of Olympia, who are depicted at the top of the image watching the scene unfold, agree that Hercules should be deified.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25030
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_25030_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Philoctetes; Gods; Goddesses; Hercules