Gods — Minor Figures
10 figures from The Argonautica who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Hecate Brimo
goddess · first appears Book III 9
- Book III 9 · protégé: Jason “calling on Hecate Brimo to aid him in the contests. And when he had called on her he drew back; and she heard him, the dread goddess, from the uttermost depths and came to the sacrifice of Aeson’s son”
Adrasteia
nurse of Zeus · first appears Book III 1
- Book III 1 · ward: Zeus “the one which his dear nurse Adrasteia made for him, while he still lived a child, with childish ways, in the Idaean cave”
Themis
prophetess · first appears Book IV 7
- Book IV 7 · pupil: Zeus “until reverend Themis declared to him the whole truth, how that it was thy fate to bear a son mightier than his sire”
- Book IV 7 · with Zeus “until reverend Themis declared to him the whole truth”
Amphitrite
goddess · first appears Book IV 11
- Book IV 11 · married with Poseidon “Poseidon’s ear has even now been loosed by the hands of his dear wife”
Perse
goddess · first appears Book IV 5
- Book IV 5 · child: Circe “Circe, daughter of Perse and Helios”
Erato
Muse · first appears Book III 1
- Book III 1 · with Cypris “For thou sharest the power of Cypris, and by thy love-cares dost charm unwedded maidens; wherefore to thee too is attached a name that tells of love.”
Perses
father of Hecate · first appears Book III 4
- Book III 4 · child: Hecate “Ere now thou hast heard me tell of a maiden that uses sorcery under the guidance of Hecate, Perses’ daughter.”
Anchiale
nymph · first appears Book I 9
- Book I 9 · child: Titias “Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother,—the Idaean Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph Anchiale, as she grasped with both hands the land of Oaxus, bare in the Dictaean cave.”
- Book I 9 · child: Cyllenus “Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother,—the Idaean Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph Anchiale, as she grasped with both hands the land of Oaxus, bare in the Dictaean cave.”
Phoreys
father of Scylla · first appears Book IV 7
- Book IV 7 · child: Scylla “night-wandering Hecate, who is called Crataeis, bare to Phoreys”
Achelous
river-god · first appears Book IV 7
- Book IV 7 · with Terpsichore “Them lovely Terpsichore, one of the Muses, bare, united with Achelous”
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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.