Jupiter turns King Lycaon into a wolf, Philip van Gunst, 1685 - 1732 print In the foreground, Jupiter King Lycaon turns into a wolf. Lycaons fifty sons are hit by lightning on the right in the background. Lycaon had tried to cheat Jupiter by slaughtering his son Arcas and offering him as a supper. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving Lycaon changed into a wolf: Jupiter changes Lycaon into a wolf as punishment for offering the god, who is sitting at table, human flesh to eat; Lycaon's house is struck with lightning (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 237)

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