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• 9 · Classical Mythology and Ancient History
• 97 · metamorphoses ~ classical mythology

97N · metamorphoses of (fabulous) animals

• 97N1 · ants changed to men: in answer to the prayer of Aeacus, Jupiter changes ants into men, the Myrmidons (Ovid, Metamorphoses VII 635)
• 97N3 · Cerberus' foam changed into aconite: when Hercules drags Cerberus forth from Hades as his twelfth labour, Cerberus' foam turns into aconite (Ovid, Metamorphoses VII 418)
• 97N4 · crow changed from white to black: because the crow has betrayed Coronis' infidelity, Apollo changes it from white to black (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 631)
• 97N8 · wolf turned to marble: at the prayer of Peleus and Thetis, a wolf is turned into marble by Psamathe because it had attacked the cattle that Peleus was herding on the sea-shore (Ovid, Metamorphoses X 401)