Concept information
Classical Mythology and Ancient History
metamorphoses ~ classical mythology
metamorphoses of male persons into mammals
Lycaon changed into a wolf: Jupiter changes Lycaon into a wolf as punishment for offering the god, who is sitting at table, human flesh to eat; Lycaon's house is struck with lightning (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 237)
Preferred term
97C41Lycaon is changed into a wolf when attempting to kill Jupiter, who is lying in bed
Subject
- ancient history
- animal
- attacking
- bed
- classical antiquity
- history
- Jupiter
- Lycaon
- lying
- mammal
- man
- metamorphosis
- mythology
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 01
- sleeping
- transformation
- wolf
Notation
- 97C41
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URI
http://iconclass.org/97C41
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