Thestorides vincemus · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Thestorides vincemus
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This image appears at the beginning of the twelfth book. It depicts a scene of the seer Calchas making a sacrifice and interpreting signs to determine that the Greeks will win the war against the Trojans in the Trojan War. There is a snake and a bird in the top left corner of the image which are some of the signs that Calchas interpreted about the war. Calchas is depicted standing in front of a fire which was lit to honour the god Zeus (Jupiter). The ship on the right side of the image represents the Greeks leaving for their journey to Troy.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25117
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_25117_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Calchas; Zeus; Jupiter; Mythology; Trojan War