Concept information
Preferred term
97FFmetamorphoses of female persons into stone
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- 97FF1 Aglauros changed into a stone: Mercury changes Aglauros into a stone because she prevents him from entering Herse's room (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 820)
- 97FF2 Anaxarete changed into a stone: while looking from her window at Iphis' funeral, Anaxarete is changed into a stone (Ovid, Metamorphoses XIV 753)
- 97FF3 Cinyras' daughters changed into temple steps: for comparing themselves to Juno, Cinyras' daughters are changed into temple steps (Ovid, Metamorphoses VI 98)
- 97FF4 Lethaea and Olenus changed into stones: on account of their pride, Lethaea and her husband Olenus are changed into stones (Ovid, Metamorphoses X 70)
- 97FF5 Niobe changed into stone: in her grief for the loss of her children, Niobe is changed into a stone (Ovid, Metamorphoses VI 305)
- 97FF9 other metamorphoses of female persons into stone
- 97FF6 Propoetides changed into stones: driven to prostitution by the wrath of Venus, whose divinity they denied, the Propoetides, women of Amathus, are changed into stones for their impudence (Ovid, Metamorphoses X 238)
- 97FF7 Rhodope and Haemus changed into mountains: because they insolently likened themselves to Juno and Jupiter, Rhodope and her brother-husband Haemus are changed into mountains (Ovid, Metamorphoses VI 87)
- 97FF8 Theban woman changed into stones: Juno changes the Theban women who are grieving for the loss of Ino into stones (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 561)
Subject
- ancient history
- classical antiquity
- history
- metamorphosis
- mythology
- petrifying
- stone
- transformation
- woman
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URI
http://iconclass.org/97FF
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