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Oedipus and Jocasta

(Miniature only) Oedipus and Jocasta. Jocasta realises from seeing her husband Oedipus's feet when helping him bathe that he is in fact her son, whose feet were mutilated when he was cast out by his parents as a baby.

Image taken from Metamorphoses.

Originally published/produced in Antoine Vérard: Paris, 1494.



Author: Ovidius Naso, Publius
Shelfmark/Page: IC.41148, LI
Language: French
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