Hecate

Also known as: three-faced Hecate · Family: deities · Role: goddess and mother of Medea · First appears: Fable 55

Life events

• Circe poisons Scylla’s bathing retreat with enchanted herbs, transforming her body into a monster.(Fable102)
  • With: Circe Scylla (daughter of Cratæis)
  • “This the Goddess infects beforehand, and pollutes it with monster-breeding drugs; on it she sprinkles the juices distilled from the noxious root”

Fable 55

• parent: Asterie “She was the wife of Perses, and the mother of Hecate.”
• child: Medea “This was aconite, or wolfsbane, said to have been discovered by Hecate, the mother of Medea.”

Fable 62

• child: Circe “she is said to have been the mother of Circe, Medea, and Absyrtus”
• child: Medea “she is said to have been the mother of Circe, Medea, and Absyrtus”
• child: Absyrtus “she is said to have been the mother of Circe, Medea, and Absyrtus”
• married with Æetes “Marrying her uncle Æetes”

Fable 63

• with Medea (Medea performs a ritual dedicated to Hecate.) “on the right hand, one to Hecate, but on the left side one to Youth.”

Fable 102

• with Circe (Circe uses Hecate's incantations.) “The Goddess is indignant; and since she is not able to injure him, and as she loves him she does not wish {to do so}, she is enraged against her, who has been preferred to herself; and, offended with these crosses in love, she immediately bruises herbs, infamous for their horrid juices, and, when bruised, she mingles with them the incantations of Hecate.”

Fable 107

• with Circe (Circe invokes Hecate during her magic.) “and she invokes Hecate in magic howlings.”

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