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Classical Mythology and Ancient History > metamorphoses ~ classical mythology > metamorphoses of (fabulous) animals > snake changed into stone > a snake is turned into stone by Apollo as it attacks Orpheus' severed head washed ashore (Ovid, Metamorphoses XI 58)

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97N71a snake is turned into stone by Apollo as it attacks Orpheus' severed head washed ashore (Ovid, Metamorphoses XI 58)  

Subject

  • ancient history
  • animal
  • Apollo
  • classical antiquity
  • head
  • history
  • metamorphosis
  • monster
  • mythology
  • Orpheus
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses 11
  • petrifying
  • shore
  • snake
  • stone
  • transformation

Notation

  • 97N71

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http://iconclass.org/97N71

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