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
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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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