The boy Phathon kneels by his mother Clymene; he complains to her that Epaphus has questioned his divine origin. Clymene thereupon points to the heavens, insisting that the sun-god is really his father - Phathon should go and visit him to hear it from him himself. Below the image, 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 first series, Clymene points out to Phathon his father, the sun god Ovid's Metamorphoses

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