Cygnus changed into a swan. Engraved illustration from 'The Temple of the Muses', 1733. This book represented remarkable events of antiquity drawn and engraved by Bernard Picart (1673-1733). Eustathius of Thessalonica informs that Ares changed Cygnus into a swan rather than let him die by the hand of Heracles

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Cygnus changed into a swan. Engraved illustration from 'The Temple of the Muses', 1733. This book represented remarkable events of antiquity drawn and engraved by Bernard Picart (1673-1733). Eustathius of Thessalonica informs that Ares changed Cygnus into a swan rather than let him die by the hand of Heracles

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