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Classical Mythology and Ancient History > metamorphoses ~ classical mythology > metamorphoses of female persons into mammals > Io changed into a cow: to avoid detection by Juno, Jupiter changes Io into a cow (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 611) > Io, still as a cow, is pursued by a gad-fly

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97CC65Io, still as a cow, is pursued by a gad-fly

97CC6 Io changed into a cow: to avoid detection by Juno, Jupiter changes Io into a cow (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 611)

97CC651 Io arrives in Egypt, regains her human form, and is worshipped as Isis

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ancient history
animal
Apollo
ass's ears
classical antiquity
gad-fly
history
king
mammal
man
metamorphosis
Midas (King)
mythology
Ovid, Metamorphoses 11
pursuing
transformation

97CC65

Io, still as a cow, is pursued by a gad-fly

Finnish
Io (toujours changée en vache) est poursuivie par un taon

French
Io wird (immer noch als Kuh) von einer Viehbremse verfolgt

German
Io, trasformata in vacca, viene tormentata da un tafano

Italian

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