Concept information
Preferred term
97F1Battus changed into a touchstone: for violating the promise to keep Mercury's theft of Apollo's cattle a secret, Mercury turns Battus, the shepherd, into a touchstone (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 705)
Broader concept
Subject
- ancient history
- Battus
- breach of promise
- classical antiquity
- history
- man
- Mercury
- metamorphosis
- mythology
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 02
- petrifying
- promising
- shepherd
- stone
- touchstone
- transformation
Notation
- 97F1
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URI
http://iconclass.org/97F1
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