Tiresias striking the snakes

Forfatter/Opretter:

Krauss, Johann Ulrich, 1645-1719

Kredit:

Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library [1]

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beskrivelse:

The Greek mythological prophet Tiresias is transformed into a woman by the goddess Hera, after striking two copulating snakes with a stick. Engraving taken from Die Verwandlungen des Ovidii : in zweyhundert und sechs- und zwantzig Kupffern (The metamorphoses of Ovid) by Johann Ulrich Krauss, c. 1690.

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Public domain