Juno advises Semele, in the guise of Semele's old nurse Beroe, to ask Jupiter to show himself to her in his full majesty. Only then can she be sure that the father of the child in her womb is a god and not a mere mortal. Beneath the image, two times two lines of Latin text. This print is part of a series of 52 prints depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This series is divided into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the third series, Juno approaches Semele in the guise of Beroe Ovid's Metamorphoses (series title), print maker: Hendrick

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