Nyctimene

Role: daughter of Nycteus · First appears: Fable 24

Life events

• Nyctimene is transformed into an owl as punishment for incest with her father, Nycteus.(Fable24)
  • With: Nycteus
  • “Nyctimene having entertained a criminal passion for her father, Nycteus, the Gods, to punish her incest, transform her into an owl.”

Fable 24

• parent: Nycteus (Nycteus is explicitly identified as Nyctimene's father.) “Nyctimene having entertained a criminal passion for her father, Nycteus, the Gods, to punish her incest, transform her into an owl.”
• with Nycteus (Incestuous father-daughter relationship.) “Nyctimene having entertained a criminal passion for her father, Nycteus, the Gods, to punish her incest, transform her into an owl.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.