Jupiter, por ruego de Eaco su hijo, transforma en hombres a unas hormigas · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Jupiter, por ruego de Eaco su hijo, transforma en hombres a unas hormigas
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Aegina; Ancient Greece
Description: King Aeacus of Aegina had survived a ravenous plague which wiped out his population, and he had asked his father Jupiter for help to rebuild his city. Aeacus is illustrated on the right side of the image with his hands in the air as he prays to his father. Jupiter led Aeacus to an oak tree that had ants climbing on it, and the ants began to transform into humans. The naked people depicted in the image are the ants who had just been transformed from ants. The transformed humans go on to create the new population of Aegina and are thenceforth known as the Myrmidons.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25018
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1809)
Image: mta_25018_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: King Aeacus; Jupiter; Myrmidons; Transformation; Gods