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Classical Mythology and Ancient History > metamorphoses ~ classical mythology > metamorphoses of male persons into mammals > Tyrrhenian sailors changed into dolphins: when Bacchus turns himself into a lion and has a vine grow about the ship, the Tyrrhenian sailors out of terror jump into the sea, and are metamorphosed into dolphins (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 662)

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97C7Tyrrhenian sailors changed into dolphins: when Bacchus turns himself into a lion and has a vine grow about the ship, the Tyrrhenian sailors out of terror jump into the sea, and are metamorphosed into dolphins (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 662)  

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  • ancient history
  • animal
  • Bacchus
  • classical antiquity
  • dolphin
  • history
  • jumping
  • lion
  • mammal
  • man
  • metamorphosis
  • mythology
  • overboard
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses 03
  • sailor
  • sea
  • ship
  • transformation
  • Tyrrhenian sailors
  • vine

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