Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Telethusa.
The gallery
Telethusa and Iphis Pray to Isis
Unknown, c. 17th century
Rijksmuseum Ovid print: Telethusa and Iphis kneel before Isis — the Cretan mother's prayer that will change her daughter's sex on the wedding morning.
Telethusa and Iphis Pray to Isis
Unknown, c. 17th century
Another Metamorphoses plate of the same prayer — Telethusa as the mother who dared Isis rather than expose the infant.
Isis and Iphis
Johann Wilhelm Baur, c. 1641
Baur's Ovid illustration: Isis answering the Cretan household — Telethusa's goddess intervening in Iphis' fate.
Isis Changes Iphis into a Man
Unknown, c. 17th century
Theatrical Ovid print of the transformation Telethusa prayed for — Isis' answer the morning Iphis was to marry Ianthe.