PLAGUE EPIDEMY

MEDICINE Plague in the city of Aegina told in Ovid's "Metamorphoses". The pestilence, unleashed by Hera to punish the loves of Zeus with the eponymous nymph of the city, only spared King Aeacus, son of the naiad and of Zeus himself; to repopulate the kingdom of his son, the divine father transformed ants into men, giving rise to the Myrmidons. Print from a 17th century painting by Pierre Mignard, 19th century

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