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9 Classical Mythology and Ancient History
97 metamorphoses ~ classical mythology
97CC metamorphoses of female persons into mammals

97CC6 Io changed into a cow: to avoid detection by Juno, Jupiter changes Io into a cow (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 611)

            97CC61 Juno appoints Argus to watch the cow (Io metamorphosed)
            97CC62 Io as a cow watched by Argus
            97CC63 Jupiter orders Mercury to kill Argus
            97CC64 Mercury lulls Argus into sleep by making music
            97CC65 Io, still as a cow, is pursued by a gad-fly


Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Mercury and Argus after Carel Fabritius
1760s