Editing Baucis and Philemon (section)

==Analysis==
The story belongs to [[Aarne-Thompson-Uther]] tale type 750.<ref>Uther, Hans-Jörg (2004). The Types of International Folktales: Animal tales, tales of magic, religious tales, and realistic tales, with an introduction. FF Communications. p. 397</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hansen |first1=William |title=Ariadne's Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature |date=2002 |publisher=Cornell University Press |pages=211–223}}</ref> It does not appear elsewhere in ancient writings.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Griffin |first1=Alan |title=Philemon and Baucis in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' |journal=Greece & Rome |date=1991 |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=62–74 |doi=10.1017/S0017383500022993 |jstor=643109 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/643109 |access-date=4 June 2023}}</ref>