Acis

Family: Sicilian · Role: youth · First appears: Fable 100

Life events

Polyphemus discovers Acis with Galatea and crushes him beneath a hurled mountain fragment.(Fable100)
- With: Polyphemus Galatea
- “When the savage {monster} espied me, and Acis unsuspecting and apprehensive of no such thing; and he exclaimed:-- ‘I see you, and I shall cause this to be the last union for your affection.’”
Acis’s blood becomes a stream, and Acis emerges transformed into a river.(Fable100)
- “The purple blood flowed from beneath the rock, and in a little time the redness began to vanish; and at first it became the colour of a stream muddied by a shower; and, in time, it became clear.”

parent: Faunus “Acis was the son of Faunus and of the Nymph Symæthis, a great delight, indeed, to his father and his mother”
parent: Symæthis “Acis was the son of Faunus and of the Nymph Symæthis, a great delight, indeed, to his father and his mother”
courtship with Galatea “Acis was the son of Faunus and of the Nymph Symæthis, a great delight, indeed, to his father and his mother, yet a still greater to me. For the charming {youth} had attached me to himself alone”
enemies with Polyphemus “The Cyclop pursued, and hurled a fragment, torn from the mountain; and though the extreme angle only of the rock reached him, yet it entirely crushed Acis.”

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