Earth

Family: Divine · Role: personified earth · First appears: Fable 18

Life events

The Earth produces food freely without cultivation.(Fable3)
- “The Earth itself, too, in freedom, untouched by the harrow, and wounded by no ploughshares, of its own accord produced everything;”
The Earth enters an eternal spring with abundant natural growth.(Fable3)
- “{Then} it was an eternal spring; and the gentle Zephyrs, with their soothing breezes, cherished the flowers produced without any seed.”
Earth animated the Giants’ blood and transformed it into human beings.(Fable5)
- With: Giants
- “the Earth was wet, drenched with the plenteous blood of her sons, and that she gave life to the warm gore; and that, lest no memorial of this ruthless race should be surviving, she shaped them into the form of men”
Phaëton’s uncontrolled chariot sets the world ablaze, destroying cities, nations, mountains, and rivers.(Fable18)
- With: Phaëton
- “Great cities perish, together with their fortifications, and the flames turn whole nations, with their populations, into ashes; woods, together with mountains, are on fire.”
Earth, scorched and endangered, appeals to Jupiter to stop the destruction and save the universe.(Fable18)
- With: Jupiter
- “O sovereign of the Gods, if thou approvest of this, if I have deserved it, why do thy lightnings linger?”
Earth withdraws her face into the underworld after delivering her desperate appeal.(Fable18)
- “and she withdrew her face within herself, and the caverns neighboring to the shades below.”

child: Tethys “[Footnote 3: Tethys.--Ver. 69. She was the daughter of Cœlus and Terra, and the wife of Oceanus. Her name is here used to signify the ocean itself.]”
child: Ægeon “[Footnote 1: Ægeon.--Ver. 10. Homer makes him to be the same with Briareus. According to another account, which Ovid here follows, he was a sea God, the son of Oceanus and Terra.]”

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