Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Classical Mythology and Ancient History > metamorphoses ~ classical mythology > metamorphoses of male persons into birds > metamorphoses of male persons into birds (first series) > Cygnus, son of Neptune, changed into a swan: when Achilles arrives in Trojan country he strangles Cycnus, son of Neptune; Cycnus is changed into a swan by his father (Ovid, Metamorphoses XII 144)

Preferred term

97D17Cygnus, son of Neptune, changed into a swan: when Achilles arrives in Trojan country he strangles Cycnus, son of Neptune; Cycnus is changed into a swan by his father (Ovid, Metamorphoses XII 144)  

Subject

  • ancient history
  • animal
  • bird
  • classical antiquity
  • Cycnus (son of Neptune)
  • history
  • man
  • metamorphosis
  • mythology
  • Neptune
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses 12
  • swan
  • transformation

Notation

  • 97D17

URI

http://iconclass.org/97D17

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Last modified 9/16/14