The boy Phathon kneels by his mother Clymene; he complains to her that Epaphus has questioned his divine origin. Clymene thereupon points to the heavens, insisting that the sun-god is really his father - Phathon should go and visit him to hear it from him himself. Below the image, 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 first series, Clymene points out to Phathon his father, the sun god Ovid's Metamorphoses (series title), print maker: Hendrick Goltzius, (workshop of), Hendrick Goltzius, Franco Estius, Haarlem, 1589, paper, engraving, h 176 mm × w 252 mm