From ships to nymphs - an interesting reverse transformation in Metamorphoses

[hokono]

I have found a very interesting plot in Ovid's Metamorphoses XIV (527-565) about a quite rare transformation from ships of Aeneas' fleet to nymphs:

[As the goddess spoke it thundered, and, after the thunder, heavy rain, and leaping hail, fell, and the winds, the brothers, sons of Astraeus the Titan by Aurora, troubled the air and the sea, swollen by the sudden onrush, and joined the conflict. The all-sustaining mother goddess, used the force of one of them, and broke the hempen cables of the Trojan ships, drove them headlong, and sank them in the deep ocean.]

Their rigidity softened, and their wood turned to flesh; the curved sternposts turned into heads; the oars into fingers and legs, swimming; the sides of each vessel became flanks, and the submerged keel down the ship’s middle turned into a spine; the cordage became soft hair, the yards were arms; and their dusky colour was as before.

[Naiads of the waters, they play, in the waves they used to fear, and born on the hills they frequent the gentle sea, and their origin does not affect them.]

However, I can only find few works about such transformation, compared with quite famous one like Daphne, and most of them are from the Middle Age.

Only this image is its modern derivative.

http://www.deviantart.com/art/Nymphs-26244042

[Ironhorse]

Interesting, an ancient version of the Arpeggio of Blue Steel.