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English: The Greek mythological prophet Tiresias is transformed into a woman by the goddess Hera, after striking two copulating snakes with a stick. Engraving taken from Die Verwandlungen des Ovidii : in zweyhundert und sechs- und zwantzig Kupffern (The metamorphoses of Ovid) by Johann Ulrich Krauss, c. 1690.
Date circa 1690
date QS:P,+1690-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library [1]
Author Krauss, Johann Ulrich, 1645-1719

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