Peneus

Also known as: river Peneus · Role: river god · First appears: Fable 12

Life events

• Daphne requests perpetual virginity, and Peneus grants her request.(Fable12)
  • With: Daphne
  • “Allow me, my dearest father, to enjoy perpetual virginity; her father, in times, bygone, granted this to Diana.” He indeed complied.”
• Daphne prays for transformation, and her body becomes a laurel tree.(Fable12 · 📍 Peneus)
  • With: Daphne
  • “Hardly had she ended her prayer, {when} a heavy torpor seizes her limbs; {and} her soft breasts are covered with a thin bark.”

Fable 12

• child: Daphne “Daphne, the daughter of Peneus, was the first love of Phœbus”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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