Other Figures — Minor Figures
240 figures from The Metamorphoses of Ovid who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Capaneus
first appears Fable 80
- Fable 80 · with Jupiter “Capaneus will not be able to be overcome, except by Jupiter”
Castor
hero · first appears Fable 73
- Fable 73 · siblings with Pollux “The two sons of Tyndarus”
- Fable 73 · parent: Jupiter “but really the sons of Jupiter”
Celmus
person changed into adamant · first appears Fable 41
- Fable 41 · with Jupiter “Thee too, I pass by, O Celmus, now adamant, formerly most attached to Jupiter {when} little”
Deois
goddess · first appears Fable 55
- Fable 55 · admirer: Jupiter “and as a speckled serpent, Deois.[19]”
- Fable 55 · parent: Ceres “Proserpine was called Deois, or Dêous Δηοῦς κόρη, from her mother Ceres, who was called Δηὼ by the Greeks,”
Dodone
daughter · first appears Fable 67
- Fable 67 · parent: Jupiter “Dodone, the daughter of Jupiter and Europa.”
- Fable 67 · parent: Europa “Dodone, the daughter of Jupiter and Europa.”
North Wind
wind deity · first appears Fable 8
- Fable 8 · with Jupiter “At once he shuts the North Wind in the caverns of Æolus, and {all} those blasts which dispel the clouds drawn over {the Earth};”
- Fable 8 · with Æolus “At once he shuts the North Wind in the caverns of Æolus, and {all} those blasts which dispel the clouds drawn over {the Earth}; and {then} he sends forth the South Wind.”
Pelasgus
son of Jupiter · first appears Fable 62
- Fable 62 · parent: Jupiter “Pelasgus, the son of Jupiter”
South Wind
wind deity · first appears Fable 8
- Fable 8 · with Jupiter “At once he shuts the North Wind in the caverns of Æolus, and {all} those blasts which dispel the clouds drawn over {the Earth}; and {then} he sends forth the South Wind.”
Typhœus
monster · first appears Fable 34
- Fable 34 · with Jupiter “those flames with which he had overthrown the hundred-handed Typhœus”
- Fable 50 · with Pluto “under it Typhœus, on his back, casts forth sand, and vomits flame from his raging mouth; often does he struggle to throw off the load of earth, and to roll away cities and huge mountains from his body. Then does the earth tremble, and the King of the shades himself is in dread, lest it may open, and the ground be parted with a wide chasm, and, the day being let in, may affright the trembling ghosts.”
Cyparissus
youth · first appears Fable 85