Aesacus and Hesperie

Aesacus and Hesperie

This image comes from one of the more tragic Greek myths in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Aesacus was infatuated with a girl named Hesperie, and was chasing her through the woods when a snake bit her on the ankle and she died. Feeling sorrow and guilt over what happened, Aesacus tried to kill himself by throwing himself off of a cliff into the ocean. The gods saw this, and decided instead to turn him into the seabird known as a diver which throws itself into the sea over and over again but always returns to the surface.

This image is one of many story images of birds and animals featured in my calendar Legendary Tales: Myths and Legends

Ink drawing with digital color, copyright Stephanie Smith

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