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Title
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Muerte de Ceys y los suyos
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Description
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This engraving illustrates a horrible storm that engulfed the ship of Ceyx and his crewmembers. Ceyx, the king of Thessaly, left his native land to seek out the Oracle at Claros. His wife, Alcyone, had begged him not to travel by sea as she knew there were dangers associated with naval travel. He went, despite her warnings, and found himself amidst a terrible storm. King Ceyx can be vaguely seen behind the figurehead at the bow of the ship. King Ceyx continued to call out the name of his wife as the ship was being destroyed. King Ceyx and Alcyone are illustrated at the top-right hand corner of the engraving in clouds in an embrace. Ceyx dies in this shipwreck.
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Image Creator
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Virgil Solis (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:11845
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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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Roman Mythology
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Greek Mythology
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Shipwreck
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Oracles
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