Phineus

Family: Cepheus · Role: rival · First appears: Fable 48

Life events

• Phineus invades the palace and attacks Perseus, beginning a furious combat.(Fable48)
  • With: Perseus
  • “Phineus, to whom Andromeda has been previously promised in marriage, rushes into the palace, with his adherents, and attacks his rival.”
• Perseus overcomes Phineus’s forces after enduring their overwhelming assault.(Fable48)
  • With: Perseus
  • “At length, perceiving himself likely to be overpowered by the number of his enemies, he shows them the head of the Gorgon;”
• Phineus abandons his unjust warfare and begs Perseus to spare him.(Fable48)
  • With: Perseus
  • “Now at length Phineus repents of this unjust warfare.”
• Perseus turns the repentant Phineus into stone with Medusa’s head.(Fable48)
  • With: Perseus
  • “Then, even as he endeavored to turn away his eyes, his neck grew stiff, and the moisture of his eyes hardened in stone.”

Fable 48

• courtship with Andromeda “Phineus, to whom Andromeda has been previously promised in marriage, rushes into the palace, with his adherents, and attacks his rival.”
• siblings with Cepheus “Cepheus cries out, “What art thou doing? What fancy, my brother, impels thee, in thy madness, to this crime?”
• younger kin: Andromeda “It is not enough, forsooth, that in thy presence she was bound and that thou, both her uncle and her betrothed, didst give no assistance;”
• enemies with Perseus “Phineus, to whom Andromeda has been previously promised in marriage, rushes into the palace, with his adherents, and attacks his rival.”
• enemies with Broteas “Upon this, two brothers, Broteas and Ammon invincible at boxing, if swords could only be conquered by boxing, fell by the hand of Phineus;”
• enemies with Ammon “Upon this, two brothers, Broteas and Ammon invincible at boxing, if swords could only be conquered by boxing, fell by the hand of Phineus;”
• engaged with Andromeda “Phineus, to whom Andromeda has been previously promised in marriage”
• rivals with Perseus “Phineus, to whom Andromeda has been previously promised in marriage, rushes into the palace, with his adherents, and attacks his rival.”
• enemies with Idas “Since I am thus forced to take a side, take the enemy, Phineus, that thou hast made, and make amends for my wound with this wound.”

⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chronicle → · 📍 Places →

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