Etienne Baudet after Francesco Albani. The Toilette of Venus, The Loves of Venus and Adonis. 1672.
Thomas Piroli (after John Flaxman), Ulysses Killing the Suitors, Edition Florence, 1800.
Bernard Picart, Perseus and Andromeda; Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (Religious Cérémonies of the World), ca. 1723.
Tisiphone (Τισιφόνη) maddens Ino and Athamas, Metamorphoses [Ovid]; Picart et al, nd.
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Devenus vieux Cadmus, le fondateur de Thèbes, et son épouse Hermione furent métamorphosés en serpents. Κάδμος (Cadmus)
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Tiresias strikes two snakes with a stick, and thus is transformed into a woman by Hera. Engraving from Die Verwandlungen des Ovidii (The Metamorphoses of Ovid) by Johann Ulrich Kraus, c. 1690.
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Bob Dylan, Tarantula, 1971.