Picture No | 10082267 |
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Description | Picus's Widow Grieves |
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When her husband Picus is turned into a magpie by Circe, his widow Canenta has nothing to live for : she is (literally) consumed by grief, haunting his deathplace
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Source | engraving by I Briot in Renouard's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, circa 1610, page 413 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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