2-650-024 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Thamyris - Reine De Scythie', 1403, (1939). Tomyris ( sometimes Thomyris ) is a legendary queen of the Massagetes , famous for having put an end to the reign of Cyrus the Great . She is considered the last queen of the Amazons . The illustration is part of the manuscript De Claris mulieribus, traduction anonyme en francais (Livre des femmes nobles et renommees) by Giovanni Boccaccio, housed in the Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris. From Verve - Nos. 5-6, July-October 1939. [Verve, France, 1939]