Concept information
Preferred term
97Emetamorphoses of male persons into (fabulous) animals
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- 97E1 Ascalabus (Stellio, Abas) changed into a lizard: Ceres changes the boy into a lizard as punishment for mocking her, when quenching her thirst too avidly (Ovid, Metamorphoses V 456)
- 97E2 Cadmus and Harmonia changed into snakes: when loaded with grief and the infirmity of old age, Cadmus and Harmonia are changed into snakes (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 576)
- 97E3 Cerambus changed into a beetle: the nymphs change Cerambus into a beetle, so that the old man can escape Deucalion's flood (Ovid, Metamorphoses VII 353)
- 97E4 Lycian farmers changed into frogs: Latona changes Lycian farmers into frogs, because while they were weeding a marsh, they prevented her and her children from quenching their thirst (Ovid, Metamorphoses VI 369)
- 97E6 other metamorphoses of male persons into (fabulous) animals
- 97E5 Tithonus changed into a cicada: when grown old and infirm, Tithonus is changed into a cicada by Aurora
Subject
- ancient history
- animal
- classical antiquity
- history
- man
- metamorphosis
- monster
- mythology
- transformation
Notation
- 97E
In other languages
URI
http://iconclass.org/97E
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