Jupiter transforma en ranas a los aldeanos que insultaron a Latona · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Jupiter transforma en ranas a los aldeanos que insultaron a Latona
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Lycia; Ancient Greece
Description: The goddess Latona had fled to escape the jealous wrath of Juno for having given birth to children born of Jupiter. Along her journey, she came upon a river in Lycia and attempted to quench her and her children’s thirst with the river’s water. Villagers from Lycia, however, denied Latona access to the water. Angered by their actions, Latona transformed the villagers into frogs. This image depicts the god Jupiter in a bed of clouds above the scene and he appears to be the one transforming them into frogs. The story that Ovid describes, however, suggests it is in fact Latona who transforms them. Latona’s children, Apollo and Diana, are depicted as babies resting by Latona’s legs.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24985
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_24985_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Latona; Jupiter; Apollo; Diana; Transformation; Mythology; Gods; Goddesses

Media: mta_24985_OBJ.jpg