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... > Classical Mythology and Ancient History > metamorphoses ~ classical mythology > metamorphoses of female persons into birds > metamorphoses of female persons into birds (first series) > Antigone changed into a stork: for comparing herself to Juno, the goddess changes Antigone, daughter of Laomedon, into a stork (Ovid, Metamorphoses VI 93) > Antigone's hair is changed into snakes > the gods take pity on Antigone (whose hair is changed into snakes), and change her into a stork

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97DD1511the gods take pity on Antigone (whose hair is changed into snakes), and change her into a stork  

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  • ancient history
  • animal
  • bird
  • Caeneus
  • classical antiquity
  • gods
  • history
  • man
  • metamorphosis
  • mythology
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses 12
  • transformation

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