Galanthis

Role: hand-maid · First appears: Fable 79

Life events

Galanthis falsely announces Alcmena’s delivery, causing Ilithyïa to release her spell.(Fable79)
- With: Ilithyïa Alcmena
- “‘Whoever thou art, congratulate my mistress; the Argive Alcmena is delivered, and, having brought forth, she has gained her wishes.’ The Goddess who presides[34] over pregnancy leaped up, and, struck with surprise, loosened her joined hands.”
Ilithyïa transforms Galanthis into a weazel as punishment for her deception.(Fable79)
- With: Ilithyïa
- “The Goddess, to punish Galanthis for her officiousness, transforms her into a weazel, a creature which was supposed to bring forth its young through its mouth.”

employer: Alcmena “There was present one of my hand-maids of the lower class of people, Galanthis {by name}”
enemies with Ilithyïa “The cruel Goddess dragged her along {thus} laughing and seized by her very hair, and she hindered her as she attempted to raise her body from the earth, and changed her arms into fore feet.”
with Ilithyïa (interaction) “‘Whoever thou art, congratulate my mistress; the Argive Alcmena is delivered, and, having brought forth, she has gained her wishes.’”
with Ilithyïa (Ilithyïa punished and transformed Galanthis.) “The cruel Goddess dragged her along {thus} laughing and seized by her very hair, and she hindered her as she attempted to raise her body from the earth, and changed her arms into fore feet.”

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