The Metamorphoses of Ovid — Places
Where things happened. Only places the text names are listed.
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114 places
Troy
5 events · chapters 96, 99
- Fable 96 · Apollo and Neptune build the walls of Troy for Laomedon.
- Fable 96 · Laomedon refuses the promised reward, and Neptune inundates Troy in punishment.
- Fable 96 · Hercules captures the walls of Troy in revenge for Laomedon’s betrayal.
- Fable 99 · Troy and Priam fall together, ending the city’s resistance.
- Fable 99 · Astyanax is hurled from the towers of Troy.
the tomb of Ninus
5 events · chapters 38
- Fable 38 · in the night — Thisbe flees a lioness and drops her veil beneath the agreed tree.
- Fable 38 · in the night — Pyramus finds Thisbe’s bloodstained veil and kills himself with his sword.
- Fable 38 · in the night — Thisbe discovers Pyramus dead and kills herself with the same sword.
- Fable 38 · Pyramus and Thisbe’s remains are placed together in one urn after their deaths.
- Fable 38 · The mulberry tree’s fruit turns black from the lovers’ blood as a lasting memorial.
Argos
4 events · chapters 48, 109
- Fable 48 · After this victory — Perseus goes to Argos, petrifies the usurper Prœtus, and restores Acrisius to the throne.
- Fable 109 · Hercules commands Myscelos in a dream to leave Argos and settle near the Æsar.
- Fable 109 · when the accusation had first been made — Myscelos is accused of contemptuously violating the laws forbidding departure from his country.
- Fable 109 · Soon as it, being inverted, poured forth the pebbles to be counted — A miracle changes every condemning pebble to white, and Hercules secures Myscelos’s acquittal.
Calydon
4 events · chapters 73
- Fable 73 · Diana sends a monstrous boar to ravage Œneus’s lands after he neglects her altar.
- Fable 73 · Meleager kills the boar and presents its head to Atalanta as the victory prize.
- Fable 73 · Plexippus and Toxeus seize Atalanta’s prize, so Meleager kills both uncles.
- Fable 73 · As soon as it is consumed — Meleager dies in torment when the enchanted billet is completely consumed.