Concept information
Preferred term
97BBmetamorphoses of female persons into plants and flowers
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- 97BB1 Clytie changed into a sunflower: on account of Apollo's contempt the Oceanid Clytie changes into a sunflower (heliotrope) (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 268)
- 97BB2 Dryope changed into a lotus-plant: Dryope is changed into a lotus-plant, when to please her little boy she picks a flower from a lotus-plant (i.e. Lotis metamorphosed) which then starts to bleed (Ovid, Metamorphoses IX 331)
- 97BB3 Lotis changed into a lotus-plant: while fleeing from Priapus, Lotis is changed into a lotus-plant (Ovid, Metamorphoses IX 347)
- 97BB4 Minthe changed into a mint-plant: when Pluto tries to seduce Minthe, the nymph is changed into a mint-plant through the jealousy of Proserpina
- 97BB6 other metamorphoses of female persons into plants and flowers
- 97BB5 Syrinx changed into a reed: while fleeing from Pan, the nymph Syrinx is changed into reed by her sisters, the Naiads (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 705)
Subject
- ancient history
- classical antiquity
- flower
- history
- metamorphosis
- mythology
- plant
- transformation
- woman
Notation
- 97BB
In other languages
URI
http://iconclass.org/97BB
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