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Picture No 10082165
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Description Ants into Myrmidons
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When Aegina is depopulated by a plague, king Aescus asks Zeus to turn the ants into people ; they become mighty warriors, accompanying Achilles to Troy
Source engraving by I Briot in Renouard's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, circa 1610, page 196
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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