Autonous
Father transformed into a stone curlew after his son was eaten by horses.
Autonous was a landowner whose horses devoured his son Anthus. Zeus and Apollo transformed the grieving family into birds. His myth is recorded in the Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis.
Quick Facts
- Transformed into
- stone curlew
- Reason for transformation
- pity from Zeus and Apollo
- Son devoured
- Anthus
- Wife
- Hippodamia
- Children
- Erodius
- Anthus
- Acanthis
Facts from the source article.
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