Picture No | 10082174 |
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Description | Philemon and Baucis |
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Philemon and Baucis, humble cottagers, are so hospitable to Zeus and Hermes (incognito) that their humble home is turned to a temple and they, when they die, become trees
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Source | engraving by I Matheus in Renouard's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, circa 1610, page 233 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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