Calisto

Also known as: Nymph / Parrhasia / virgin of Nonacris · Family: Arcadia · Role: huntress · First appears: Fable 22

Life events

• Jupiter assumes Diana’s form and violently seduces Calisto.(Fable22 · 📍 Arcadia)
  • With: Jupiter
  • “Immediately he puts on the form and dress of Diana, and says, “O Virgin!”
• Diana discovers Calisto’s pregnancy and expels her from the hunting train.(Fable22 · 📍 Mænalus)
  • With: Diana
  • “Cynthia said to her, in confusion, and endeavoring to conceal her stomach with her hands, ‘Begone afar hence! and pollute not the sacred springs;’ and she ordered her to leave her train.”
• Arcas encounters Calisto as a bear and nearly kills her, not recognizing his mother.(Fable22 · 📍 Erymanthian forests)
  • With: Arcas
  • “He drew back, and, in his ignorance, was alarmed at her keeping her eyes fixed upon him without ceasing; and, as she was desirous to approach still nearer, he would have pierced her breast with the wounding spear.”
• Jupiter prevents the killing and places Arcas and Calisto among the constellations.(Fable22 · 📍 the heavens)
  • With: Jupiter Arcas
  • “Omnipotent {Jove} averted this, and removed both them and {such} wickedness; and placed them, carried through vacant space with a rapid wind, in the heavens, and made them neighboring Constellations.”

Fable 22

• admirer->admired with Jupiter “Jupiter, while taking a survey of the world, to extinguish the remains of the fire, falls in love with Calisto, whom he sees in Arcadia”
• with Jupiter (Jupiter assaults Calisto while disguised as Diana.) “He does not betray himself without the commission {of violence}.”
• enemies with Juno “Thou shalt not go unpunished; for I will spoil that shape of thine, on which thou pridest thyself, and by which thou, mischievous one,[64] dost charm my husband.”
• with Diana (Diana expels Calisto from her company.) “Begone afar hence! and pollute not the sacred springs;” and she ordered her to leave her train.”
• child: Arcas “Her son, Arcas, not recognizing his mother in that shape, is about to kill her”
• courtship with Jupiter “Jupiter, while taking a survey of the world, to extinguish the remains of the fire, falls in love with Calisto, whom he sees in Arcadia; and, in order to seduce that Nymph, he assumes the form of Diana.”

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