Thursday, March 22, 2007

Latona & the Lycian Peasants

I thought that the story of Latona and the Lycian Peasants would be a good story to try to find an illustration to represent, and I found that there were many other people that felt the same way. Literally hundreds of artistic representations of the myth exist, and thanks to the internet, I stumbled upon a few that were just what I was looking for. The last one is a picture of the central fountain in the garden terrace of Versailles and shows the peasants in various stages of transformation. Great stuff! (Also check out the summary in my Metamorphoses page.)


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