Tiresias and Manto prophecying from BL Burn 257, f. 169v

Detail of a miniature of a dragon appearing above the flames on an altar before Manto and her father Tiresias, and Manto addressing Menoeceus, Creon, and Creon's wife, illustrating book 10, verses 589ff of Statius's Thebaid. Image taken from f. 169v of Thebais (index Thebaid), with the argumenta antiqua; Achilleis (index Achilleid). Written in Latin.