Coronis

Also known as: Larissæan Coronis · Family: Hæmonia · Role: woman · First appears: Fable 22

Life events

Apollo learns that Coronis has been unfaithful with a youth of Hæmonia.(Fable24)
- With: Apollo
- “he tells his master, that he has seen Coronis lying down with a youth of Hæmonia.”
Apollo shoots Coronis after learning of her infidelity.(Fable24)
- With: Apollo
- “And as his mind was {now} burning with swelling rage, he took up his wonted arms, and levelled his bow bent from the extremities, and pierced, with an unerring shaft, that bosom, that had been so oft pressed to his own breast.”
Coronis dies from the wound inflicted by Apollo.(Fable24)
- “Thus far {she spoke}; and she poured forth her life, together with her blood. A deadly coldness took possession of her body deprived of life.”

admirer->admired with Apollo “There was no one more beauteous in all Hæmonia than Larissæan[69] Coronis. At least, she pleased thee, Delphian {God}, as long as she continued chaste, or was not the object of remark.”
courtship with Apollo “There was no one more beauteous in all Hæmonia than Larissæan[69] Coronis. At least, she pleased thee, Delphian {God}, as long as she continued chaste, or was not the object of remark.”

courtship with Apollo (Coronis is explicitly identified as Apollo's mistress.) “Apollo pierces the breast of Coronis with an arrow, on the raven informing him of the infidelity of his mistress.”
with Apollo (Apollo kills Coronis.) “Apollo pierces the breast of Coronis with an arrow, on the raven informing him of the infidelity of his mistress.”

child: Æsculapius “whence {it is that} the Island surrounded by the channel of the Tiber introduced the son of Coronis into the sacred rites of the City of Romulus.”

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