Transformations of Chloris into Flora, Daphne into a laurel tree, and Actaeon into a stag which is promptly killed by his own hunting dogs.
Schmidt
Before folk history changed with the concept of human evolution, caves were sacred places inhabited by hermits, or figures from myth.
A common convention in paintings of classical myth, the river god was a bearded old man with a put pouring forth water, often seen with a Naiad, his daughter.
Dragged to a dungeon by her hair, she had committed no crime – indeed, she had only been faithful to her husband.
The grandson of the founder of Thebes suffers a grisly fate when he stumbles across the goddess Diana bathing naked.
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