Concept information
Preferred term
97D28Picus changed into a woodpecker: Circe changes Picus into a woodpecker because, faithful to his wife Canens, he spurns the love of the goddess (Ovid, Metamorphoses XIV 386)
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Subject
- ancient history
- animal
- bird
- Circe
- classical antiquity
- fidelity
- history
- husband and wife
- love unrequited
- man
- metamorphosis
- mythology
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 14
- Picus
- transformation
- woodpecker
Notation
- 97D28
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URI
http://iconclass.org/97D28
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