Medea, despues de haber muerto a los dos hijos que tuvo de Jason huye a Atenas · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Medea, despues de haber muerto a los dos hijos que tuvo de Jason huye a Atenas
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Corinth; Athens; Ancient Greece
Description: This image depicts Medea fleeing after having killed her children. Medea had learned that her husband Jason had fallen in love with another woman and married her. Angered by this betrayal, Medea murdered her and Jason’s two children, who are depicted at the bottom right corner of the image. She also set fire to Corinth to kill Jason’s new wife. There are flames and smoke in the image to depict the fire she had started. Jason, angered by Medea’s actions, is illustrated on the ground drawing his sword out to kill Medea. Medea, however, flees to Athens on a golden chariot led by dragons.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25015
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 (1809)
Image: mta_25015_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Medea; Jason; Infanticide; Mythology