Minerva instructs Cadmus to sow some of the teeth of the dragon he has just killed. He does so, upon which armed men rise from the earth. Below the depiction 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, Cadmus sows the teeth of the dragon Ovid's Metamorphoses (series title), print maker: Hendrick Goltzius, (workshop of), print maker: Robert de Baudous, (workshop of), Hendrick Goltzius, (

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Photo credit: © Penta Springs / Alamy / Afripics
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