Clytie

Role: maiden · First appears: Fable 39

Life events

Clytie reveals Leucothoë’s affair, and Hyperion buries Leucothoë alive.(Fable40)
- With: Hyperion Leucothoë
- “Clytie envied her, (for the love of the Sun[40] for her had not been moderate), and, urged on by resentment at a rival, she published the intrigue, and, when spread abroad, brought it to the notice of her father. He, fierce and unrelenting, cruelly buried her alive deep in the ground”
Clytie pines away and is eventually transformed into a sunflower.(Fable40)
- With: Sun
- “he also despises the informer, who pines away for love of him, and is at last changed into the sunflower.”

admired: Sun (Clytie longs for the Sun's embraces) “nor yet Clytie, who, though despised, was longing for thy embraces”

rivals with Leucothoë (The pronoun “her” refers to Leucothoë, whose adventure is identified in the preceding synopsis.) “Clytie envied her, (for the love of the Sun[40] for her had not been moderate), and, urged on by resentment at a rival, she published the intrigue,”
admired: Sun (Clytie continues to love the Sun after her transformation.) “Though she is held fast by a root, she turns towards the Sun, and {though} changed, she {still} retains her passion.”
with Leucothoë (Clytie informs Leucothoë's father about her affair.) “Clytie, in a fit of revenge, discovers the adventure of Leucothoë to her father, who orders her to be buried alive.”
with Sun (The Sun ends his romantic intercourse with Clytie.) “But the author of light came no more to Clytie (although love might have excused her grief, and her grief the betrayal); and he put an end to his intercourse with her.”
with Sun (Clytie pines away from unrequited passion for the Sun.) “From that time she, who had made so mad a use of her passion, pined away, loathing the {other} Nymphs;”

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