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Classical Mythology and Ancient History > metamorphoses ~ classical mythology > metamorphoses of male persons into mammals > Lycaon changed into a wolf: Jupiter changes Lycaon into a wolf as punishment for offering the god, who is sitting at table, human flesh to eat; Lycaon's house is struck with lightning (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 237)

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97C4Lycaon changed into a wolf: Jupiter changes Lycaon into a wolf as punishment for offering the god, who is sitting at table, human flesh to eat; Lycaon's house is struck with lightning (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 237)  

Subject

  • ancient history
  • animal
  • classical antiquity
  • history
  • Jupiter
  • Lycaon
  • mammal
  • man
  • metamorphosis
  • mythology
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses 01
  • transformation
  • wolf

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  • 97C4

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