Cadmo y Hermione se retiran a la Iliria, y son transformados en serpientes · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cadmo y Hermione se retiran a la Iliria, y son transformados en serpientes
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Thebes; Illyria; Ancient Greece
Description: This image depicts Cadmus, the king of Thebes, transformed into a snake. His wife Harmonia is depicted holding him while she wishes to be transformed into a snake as well in order to be with him. Cadmus was transformed into a snake as punishment for slaying a serpent sacred to the god Mars. There are soldiers in the background of the image watching the scene unfold.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24963
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_24963_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Cadmus; Harmonia; Transformation; Serpents; Mythology