Athamas und Ino kommen von sinnen · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Athamas und Ino kommen von sinnen
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Thebes; Boeotia
Description: This engraving illustrates Ino and King Athamas sitting on their thrones while ruling over Thebes. One out of the three Furies, Tisiphone, is depicted on the left side of the illustration with snakes in her hair and a blood-soaked torch in her right hand. Her left hand is lifted above Ino and Athamas as she pours poisonous liquids over them. These liquids poison their minds and makes them crazy. Tisiphone was sent to do this by the vengeful goddess Juno.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:21628
Language: ger
Source Name: P. Ouidij Nasonis, deß Sinnreichen und hochverstendigen Poeten, Metamorphoses oder Verwandlung, mit schönen figuren gezieret, auch kurzen Argumenten und außlegungen erkläret, und in Teutsche Reymen gebracht, durch Johann Spreng von Augspurg [Publius Ovidius Naso, the Ingenious and Highly Understandable Poet, Metamorphoses or Transformations, Adorned with Beautiful Images, and also descriptions of Short Arguments and Explanations, Brought into German Rhymes by Johann Spreng of Augsburg]
Parent Collection: 1564 Frankfurt Spreng
Image: mta_21628_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Gods; Goddesses; The Furies; Ino; Athamas; Tisiphone; Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Poison; Juno